A PAIR OF EMPIRE STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT THRONE CHAIRS

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT THRONE CHAIRS
The rectangular padded back, sides and bowed seat upholstered in a stripped and patterned fabric, flanked by columnar uprights with leaf-tip capitals, on lion monopodia headed by Herculean terms with the Nemean lion's pelt, with laurel-carved seat rail (2)

Lot Essay

A pair of chairs of this model but with ormolu uprights and frieze mounts was sold in these Rooms, 23 May 1995, lot 149