A SWEDISH GILTWOOD AND BRONZED OPEN ARMCHAIR

LATE 18TH EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A SWEDISH GILTWOOD AND BRONZED OPEN ARMCHAIR
Late 18th early 19th Century
With outscrolled rectangular back and seat covered in green striped silk, with Egyptian herm arm-supports, the sides of the arms with sphinxes, the side seat-rails with foliage and patera above a laurel band, on turned tapering foliage-clasped baluster legs with paw feet to the back legs, two seat-rails with further wooden rail to the inside, repairs to both back legs, redecorated

Provenance

Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 19 May 1994, lot 116 (7,475)

Lot Essay

Similar late Gustavian armchairs of circa 1800 are at stanaa (H. Groth, Neoclassicism in the North, London, 1990, p. 131, fig. 122), which was built by Degenaer (1791-94). With similar Egyptian heads under the armrests and painted winged sphinxes on the sides, the chair at stanaa was one of a set of twelve commissioned for Queen Frederika's Audience Room at Gripsholm. Introduced by Ephriam Staahl in 1803 (Stockholm, active 1794-1820/1), this set was possibly the most expensive suite ever supplied to a Royal palace. A suite of similar seat furniture (Stockholm, c. 1810) in the Salon at Vittskvle, Skaane (Groth, op. cit., pp. 158 and 159, fig. 153) complements the Gustavian remodelling of the house and was commissioned by Baron Kjell Christoffer Barnekow (d. 1818).

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