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A CAST SIMULATED BRONZE METAL LIBRARY BERGERE

OF REGENCY STYLE, OF RECENT MANUFACTURE

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A CAST SIMULATED BRONZE METAL LIBRARY BERGERE
OF REGENCY STYLE, OF RECENT MANUFACTURE
The sides and legs modelled as a pair of griffin monopodia, with buttoned plush upholstered seat, verdi-gris patination overall
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis. This lot will be removed to an off-site warehouse at the close of business on the day of sale - 2 weeks free storage

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This bergere is conceived as an imperial throne in the antique style promoted by the Society of Dilettanti and by architects such as Charles Heathcote Tatham (d. 1842), author of Etchings of ... Grecian and Roman Architectural Ornament, 1806. It resembles a Grecian marble theatre seat with its 'poetic' chimerae in the form of the griffin or lion-bodied eagle that was sacred to the sun and poetry deity, Apollo.