A matched set of eighteen German beechwood, walnut and marquetry chairs

FOURTEEN CHAIRS MID 18TH CENTURY, THREE CHAIRS AND AN OPEN ARMCHAIR OF LATER DATE

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A matched set of eighteen German beechwood, walnut and marquetry chairs
Fourteen chairs mid 18th Century, three chairs and an open armchair of later date
Each with a cartouche-shaped channelled back centred by a vase-shaped splat inlaid with flower-heads, rockwork and C-scrolls, above the serpentine-fronted seat covered in brown leather, on cabriole legs, terminating in paw feet, the four later chairs covered in brown and red velvet, restorations and replacements (18)

Lot Essay

These chairs, with their solid splats influenced by slightly earlier English models, relate to a set of chairs in the Neues Schloss in Bayreuth, which were possibly executed by the Hofsesselmacher Christian Gottfried Klärer (1716-1795) around 1760. H. Kreisel G. Himmelheber, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1970, Vol. II, fig. 707.
These chairs were probably originally used in one of the other neighbouring residences of the Counts of Maldeghem as they appear on an early 20th Century photograph of an interior which was clearly not taken at Schloss Niederstotzingen.

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