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A VICTORIAN BRASS-MOUNTED AND EBONISED REVOLVING DESK CHAIR

BY HOLLAND & SONS

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A VICTORIAN BRASS-MOUNTED AND EBONISED REVOLVING DESK CHAIR
By Holland & Sons
The arched padded back, arms and circular seat covered in close-nailed beige leather, the back with pierced foliate gallery to the lower half and with square uprights with foliate angle-brackets above the panelled seat with stiff-leaf band, on turned tapering stop-fluted baluster legs headed by a panelled flowerhead and with laurel-wreath rim terminating in lotus-leaf brass caps and castors, stamped to the underside 'HOLLAND & SONS'

拍品專文

Holland and Sons were the most distinguished furniture producers of the Victorian period, starting as Taprell and Holland at the begininning of the 19th Century, and becoming Holland and Sons in 1843. [They supplied the furniture for many of the London Gentleman's clubs including the Athenaeum, the Reform Club and the Oxford and Cambridge Club.] They took over premises in Mount Street in 1851 and their archives dating to 1942, when the firm ceased trading, are now preserved by the Victoria and Albert Museum.