A SET OF SIX SWEDISH BIEDERMEIER BIRCH DINING-CHAIRS

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A SET OF SIX SWEDISH BIEDERMEIER BIRCH DINING-CHAIRS
Each with arched cartouche-shaped toprail above the horizontal splat with central flowerhead flanked by fanned reeding, the armchairs with downswept arm-supports with ebonised ball finial, covered in striped green cotton and on square tapering slightly outswept feet (6)

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A closely related chair is illustrated in S. Wallin, Nordiska Museets Möbler Fran Svenska Herrmanshem, Lund, 1979, p. 147, figs. 1169, 1170 and 1173. An almost identical armchair was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 6 June 1991, lot 211, and a similar set was sold anonymously, Sotheby's New York, 16 May 1987, lot 117.

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