Lot 49
49
A REGENCY MAHOGANY BERGERE with panelled routte-capped toprail with channelled downswept spirally-gadrooned urn-shaped arm-supports, the padded back, sides, seat and squab cushion covered in purple cotton, above a panelled seat-rail, on rosette-headed turned tapering fluted legs and turned feet, with label to the inside 459 chair

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A REGENCY MAHOGANY BERGERE with panelled routte-capped toprail with channelled downswept spirally-gadrooned urn-shaped arm-supports, the padded back, sides, seat and squab cushion covered in purple cotton, above a panelled seat-rail, on rosette-headed turned tapering fluted legs and turned feet, with label to the inside 459 chair

Lot Essay

The bombé-fronted bergère-chair, with foliate and turn-fluted baluster arm-support and fluted and columnar legs, capped by flowered tablets, derives from a Louis XVI pattern of the 1780's. Patterns for seats with related features were published in A.Hepplewhite & Co., Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, fig. 9 and T.Sherton, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793, pl. XXXV.

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