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CIRCA 1720
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A PAIR OF REGENCE WALNUT FAUTEUILS
Circa 1720
Each with padded rectangular back, armrests, and flared seat covered with contemporary close-nailed gros and petit point floral needlework, the backs with a woman seated before a fireplace and before a flaming tripod, the seats with birds and fantastic creatures, the reverse covered with rust velevt, the elaborately carved canted volute handrests on acanthus-sheathed inverted cabriole supports, the seat-rail centered by a shell on a diaper ground flanked by scrolling acanthus, the siderails similarly-decorated, on cabriole legs with acanthus-sheathed volute feet each headed by acanthus, joined by a curved X-stretcher (2)
Circa 1720
Each with padded rectangular back, armrests, and flared seat covered with contemporary close-nailed gros and petit point floral needlework, the backs with a woman seated before a fireplace and before a flaming tripod, the seats with birds and fantastic creatures, the reverse covered with rust velevt, the elaborately carved canted volute handrests on acanthus-sheathed inverted cabriole supports, the seat-rail centered by a shell on a diaper ground flanked by scrolling acanthus, the siderails similarly-decorated, on cabriole legs with acanthus-sheathed volute feet each headed by acanthus, joined by a curved X-stretcher (2)