A PAIR OF SWEDISH PARCEL-GILT WHITE-PAINTED STOOLS

LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF SWEDISH PARCEL-GILT WHITE-PAINTED STOOLS
Late 18th Century
Each with a rectangular padded seat and outscrolled padded arms covered in mauve silk, the arms with trailing bell-husks, the seatrails with berried laurel-leaves, the corners each with patera panels, on turned tapering fluted legs headed with stiff leaves, lacking two paterae, redecorated, later blocks
26in. (66cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

The stools' laurel-festooned frames and palm-wrapped columnar legs enriched with flutes feature on an armchair illustrated in S. Wallin, Nordiska Museets Möbler Fran Svenska Herremanshem, Lund, 1979, vol. III, p.135, fig.1132.

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