A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN OAK ARMCHAIRS

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A PAIR OF EARLY VICTORIAN OAK ARMCHAIRS
Each with a backscrolled padded back, arms and seat covered in dark blue-green floral-nailed leather, the back with a gilt-stamped roundel with the intials 'A P C', the sides of the back carved with overlapping leaves, the arms carved with an ivy leaf and on octagonal downcurved supports, above foliate and ivy-carved panels, on octagonal carved baluster legs with square chamfered feet, joined by a reeded chamfered H-shaped stretcher with part-sunk brass castors to the front feet, one chair inscribed '12' to the webbing
26½ in. (67.5 cm.) wide; 36½ in. (92.5 cm.) high; 31 in. (79 cm.) total depth (2)

Sale room notice

These Pugin-style chairs may have been designed by J.G. Crace (d.1889). The panels of ivy at the top of each leg relate to furniture he supplied for Abney Hall, Cheshire in the early 1850s.

Lot Essay

These armchairs with facetted and panelled frames inset with floral carving, and imbricated legs are reminiscent of the furniture designed by A.W.N. Pugin (d.1852) for the Palace of Westminster, from 1840 onwards. See for comparison, P. Atterbury and C.Wainwright, Pugin, A Gothic Passion, London, 1994, p. 139, fig. 250. The standard armchair for the House of Lords, features the same faceted intersections between the square blocks of the arm-rest uprights, legs and feet, (ibid, p.131, fig. 230 (c)).

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