A SET OF SIX REGENCY RED AND GILT-JAPANNED CHAIRS

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A SET OF SIX REGENCY RED AND GILT-JAPANNED CHAIRS
Decorated overall with flowers and foliage, each with panelled toprail with shaped cartouche decorated with a Chinese scene of figures in a garden and surmounted by ball finials, the backswept uprights joined by a baluster splat above the caned seat with a yellow velvet- covered squab cushion, on sabre legs, decoration refreshed, two incised F and three with four pounce marks (6)

Provenance

Mrs. Gordon Woodhouse (the provenance given in Jourdain, loc. cit.)

Literature

M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London, rev. ed. 1965, p. 53, fig. 92, in the black and white illustration incorrectly described as black

Lot Essay

The cane-seated and squab-cushioned parlour chairs are designed in the early nineteenth-century Grecian manner with tablet crest, reed-balustered splats and Etruscan-scrolled legs, while their crimson japanning with floral ornament and scalloped vignettes of figures in Oriental pleasure-gardens, reflects the contemporary fashion for Chinese wall-papers and such exotic decorations as that introduced to George, Prince Regent's Marine Pavillion, Brighton, by Frederick Crace (d. 1859). A cabinet with related decoration attributed to Crace is illustrated in M. Aldrich, The Craces: Royal Decorators, Brighton, 1990, p. 23, no. 1:12).

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