COROMANDEL COAST, CIRCA 1680-1700

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AN ANGLO-INDIAN EBONY CHAIR
COROMANDEL COAST, CIRCA 1680-1700
With spiral turned splats above a caned seat, and spiral turned legs joined by a stretcher, the cresting ebonized and possibly replaced

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Lot Essay

This chair is similar to those favored by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill, and similar examples also from the Coromandel Coast are discussed in A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London, 2001, pp.130-142.

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