Lot Essay
The chair's caned arms and lion monopodia relate to an Egyptian pattern in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, London, 1808, pl. 56.
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A REGENCY BRONZED AND PARCEL-GILT BERGERE
With deep toprail and scrolled stiles above a caned back, sides and seat with squab cushion covered in golden material, the channelled frame with lion-mask arm terminals, on sabre legs headed by drapery and terminating in paw feet, the decoration refreshed
With deep toprail and scrolled stiles above a caned back, sides and seat with squab cushion covered in golden material, the channelled frame with lion-mask arm terminals, on sabre legs headed by drapery and terminating in paw feet, the decoration refreshed