A PAIR OF REGENCY ROSEWOOD, EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CHAIRS

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A PAIR OF REGENCY ROSEWOOD, EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT SIDE CHAIRS

Each with outscrolled padded toprail and seat covered in light green cotton, the laurel-wrapped lyre-shaped back with brass strings, above a seat-rail with stiff-leaf band and on part-fluted turned tapering legs headed by upturned lotus leaves, with baton carrying-holes (2)

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This drawing-room chair pattern, with its palm-wreathed legs and foliated 'Apollo' lyre back, relates to that in Henry Whitaker's Designs of Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture in the Most Modern Style, 1825 (E. White, British 18th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 215). This patterned back featured on a chair from the Jennie Lind collection, illustrated in G. Beard and J. Goodison, English Furniture 1500-1840, Oxford, 1987, p. 261, fig. 8.

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