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Lot Essay
Although there appears to be no surviving engraved source for this specific chair-back design, very similar chairs with slight variations have been recorded in designs by James Wyatt (d.1813) and they bear similarities to Hepplewhite designs as discussed in R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1977, p.157, fig. 160.
The popularity of the pattern can perhaps be judged by the fact that they were reproduced as far afield as India, examples in rosewood inlaid with brass, copper and mother-of-pearl are illustrated in A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London, 2001, pp. 384 - 385, no. 191, and in ivory veneered wood, illustrated in A. Jaffer, Luxury Goods from India, London, 2002, pp. 84 - 85, no. 35.
Chairs of virtually the same model were exhibited in The International Art Treasures Exhibition C.I.N.O.A, Bath, 1973 illustrated in the catalogue no. 74, pl. 101 and at The Grand Gallery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, illustrated p. 220, fig. 215.
The popularity of the pattern can perhaps be judged by the fact that they were reproduced as far afield as India, examples in rosewood inlaid with brass, copper and mother-of-pearl are illustrated in A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London, 2001, pp. 384 - 385, no. 191, and in ivory veneered wood, illustrated in A. Jaffer, Luxury Goods from India, London, 2002, pp. 84 - 85, no. 35.
Chairs of virtually the same model were exhibited in The International Art Treasures Exhibition C.I.N.O.A, Bath, 1973 illustrated in the catalogue no. 74, pl. 101 and at The Grand Gallery at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, illustrated p. 220, fig. 215.