A PAIR OF REGENCY ROSEWOOD SMALL TUB BERGERES

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A PAIR OF REGENCY ROSEWOOD SMALL TUB BERGERES
Each buttoned rectangular padded back and seat cushion covered in green velvet, on ring-turned tapering baluster legs, brass caps and castors , both chairs with metal plaque inscribed 'THIS CHAIR BELONGED TO ADMIRAL LORD NELSON AT MERTON PLACE SURREY AND BOUGHT IN MARCH 1951 AT LORD NELSON SALE', one leg replaced, two later blocks (2)

拍品专文

The chairs bear 1951 labels stating that they came from Merton Place, Surrey, which was being enlarged by the architect Thomas Chawner (d. 1851) for Admiral Lord Nelson at the time of his death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 (J. Russell, Nelson and The Hamiltons, 1972, pp. 437-8 and 446). In 1806 Messrs. Morel and Hughes provided related chairs, with hollowed backs scrolled to the front legs, for Weston Park, Staffordshire (P. Rogers, 'A Regency Interior: The Remodelling of Weston Park', Furniture History, 1987, fig. 3). A pattern for a 'Roman' chair with this form of back and turned front legs, featured in The London Chair-Makers' and Carvers' Book of Prices, 1808, pl. 1).