A SET OF FOUR REGENCY EBONIZED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS

THREE CIRCA 1810, ONE LATE 20TH CENTURY

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A SET OF FOUR REGENCY EBONIZED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS
THREE CIRCA 1810, ONE LATE 20TH CENTURY
Each with a pierced rectangular back inset with a caned oval centred by a painted panel depicting playing putti, above a caned seat with a buttoned squab-cushion, on ring-turned tapering legs with outscrolled feet, re-touches to painted panels (4)

Provenance

The Dining-Room, Petit Fleur d'Eau, Lake Geneva, sold Christie's London, 2 May 2002, lot 332.

Literature

C. Jones, Colefax & Fowler - The Best in English Interior Decoration, New York, London, a.o., 3rd edn., 1998, p. 182 (illustrated)

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Lot Essay

The chair pattern, with reeded columnar legs and grisaille medallion depicting sporting youths in antiquity, corresponds to that of a pair of chairs acquired in 1899 by the South Kensington Victoria and Albert Museum (R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1954, vol. I, fig 258). The latter also feature figurative tablets on the crest rails. A pair of similar chairs was sold Christie's London, 11 April 1991, lot 95.

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