Lot Essay
The general pattern for this type of caned bergère chair with lyre-scrolled back in the Grecian manner featured in T. Sheraton, Cabinet Encyclopedia, 1804, pl.10.
This 'bergère' with its panelled sabre legs and serpentine stile, is closely related to the 'mahogany Uxbridge chair with cane back' supplied by Gillow & Sons to Stephen Tempest for the library at Broughton Hall, Yorkshire between 1811-13 (see: C. Hussey, English Country Houses: Late Georgian, 1958, p.95, fig.166). Its overall design relates to the 'Ashburnham' chair of 1803, the drawing of which survives in the Gillow's sketch book in Westminster Public Library (no. 1721).
A related bergère was sold, in these Rooms, 27 February 1992, lot 58
This 'bergère' with its panelled sabre legs and serpentine stile, is closely related to the 'mahogany Uxbridge chair with cane back' supplied by Gillow & Sons to Stephen Tempest for the library at Broughton Hall, Yorkshire between 1811-13 (see: C. Hussey, English Country Houses: Late Georgian, 1958, p.95, fig.166). Its overall design relates to the 'Ashburnham' chair of 1803, the drawing of which survives in the Gillow's sketch book in Westminster Public Library (no. 1721).
A related bergère was sold, in these Rooms, 27 February 1992, lot 58