A LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY BERGERE

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A LATE GEORGE III MAHOGANY BERGERE
With panelled rosette-capped toprail with channelled downswept spirally- gadrooned urn-shaped arm-supports, the padded sides, arms, seat and squab-cushion covered in red floral silk damask, above a panelled seat-rail, on rosette-headed turned tapering fluted legs and turned feet

Provenance

Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 17 June 1993, lot 49

Lot Essay

The bombé fronted bergère-chair with foliate and turn-fluted baluster arm-supports and fluted and columnar legs, capped by flowered tablets, derives from a Louis XVI pattern of the 1780s. Patterns for seats with related features were published in A. Hepplewhite & Co.'s Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, fig. 9 and T. Sheraton's, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793, pl.XXXV.

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