Lot 60
60
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A REGENCY EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT WINDOW SEAT, the padded seat and scrolled arms covered in buttoned pale yellow silk, the channelled frame with flowerhead terminals and on sabre legs with shell spandrels, the decoration refreshed

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A REGENCY EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT WINDOW SEAT, the padded seat and scrolled arms covered in buttoned pale yellow silk, the channelled frame with flowerhead terminals and on sabre legs with shell spandrels, the decoration refreshed
46in.(117cm.)wide;

Lot Essay

Grecian window seats of this kind, with a central palmette-flanked rosette supported on bow-shaped legs, were popularised by Messrs. Morgan and Sanders of Trafalgar House, Catherine Street, through their illustration of a related window seat in R. Ackermann's The Repository of Arts, London, 1809 (see: P. Agius, Ackermann's Regency Furniture and Interiors, Marlborough, 1984, p. 39)

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