A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY BERGERES

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 70-71)

Details

A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY BERGERES
Each with a reeded frame, the rectangular padded back, seat, sides and cushion covered in close-nailed dark-red leather, on lion monopodia legs, with anthemion breastplates, on ormolu paw feet with sunk castors, the seat-rails strengthened
38½ in. (98 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Previously at Jenkyn Place, Hampshire.

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

George Smith published an 1804 library-chair pattern with lion monopodia in his Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808 (pl. 44) and related palm-flowered monopodia featured on seat furniture commisioned in 1805 from Gillows of London for Kinmel Park, Denbighshire (see D. FitzGerald, Georgian Furniture, London, 1969, no. 136). Palm-flowered monopodia also appear on a chair sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 26 February 1981 lot 26, and another pair was illustrated by Stair & Co. Ltd in the 1989 catalogue for the Antique Dealers' Fair at Grosvenor House.

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