A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BERGERE

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A GEORGE II MAHOGANY BERGERE
The serpentine-crested rectangular padded back, outscrolled arms, and seat-cushion covered in 19th Century silk brocade with scrollling flowers, with a blue silk loose cover and a cotton dust cover, on cabriole legs, carved with acanthus scrolls, with scrolled feet, stamped '19/459', the feet cut-through and reattached, presumably for strengthening

來源

Acquired by Colonel Norman Colville M.C.

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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.

拍品專文

The cabinet-maker William Gomm of Clerkenwell Close, illustrates similar serpentine-crested armchairs, arranged around the walls, in his designs for a drawing-room, dated 1761 (and now in the Henry Francis Du Pont Winterthur Museum, Delaware)(C. Saumarez-Smith, Eighteenth-Century Decoration, London, 1993, pp. 244-245).
The serpentine-crested back and scrolled arms of this bergere relate to those of the pair of sofas from the Dalmahoy Suite, sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 13 November 1997, lot 70.