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A REGENCY PARCEL-GILT AND SIMULATED ROSEWOOD ARMCHAIR
PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK ESTATE 
A REGENCY PARCEL-GILT AND SIMULATED ROSEWOOD ARMCHAIR

CIRCA 1805

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A REGENCY PARCEL-GILT AND SIMULATED ROSEWOOD ARMCHAIR
Circa 1805
The incurved tablet crestrail with molded surround and panelled Apollo's mask issuing scrolling palmettes to each side on backscrolled stiles and above a reeded horizontal splat with central palmette clasp, the downswept arms on caryatid supports with turned base, the caned rectangular seat with two-tone gold striped drop-on seat cushion, above reeded apron and X-form legs headed by panelled paterae and joined by turned stretchers and with squared collared feet, with the yellow chalk inscription 64.293

拍品專文

Other examples of virtually the same form are illustrated in B. Reade, Regency Antiques, London, 1953, pl.13b and E.T. Joy, The Country Life Book of Chairs, London, 1967, pl.71. A pair of chairs of this same basic model was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 7 April 1990, lot 70 ($13,200).