拍品 37
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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A SET OF TWELVE REGENCY MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS, each with panelled concave-fronted tablet top-rail above a pierced X-shaped splat centred by a patera, with padded seat covered in rose and ivory striped-silk above a plain seatrail and on sabre legs, three stamped IB, with batten-holes, two with extensive restorations to splat, four with restorations to stiles (12)

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A SET OF TWELVE REGENCY MAHOGANY DINING-CHAIRS, each with panelled concave-fronted tablet top-rail above a pierced X-shaped splat centred by a patera, with padded seat covered in rose and ivory striped-silk above a plain seatrail and on sabre legs, three stamped IB, with batten-holes, two with extensive restorations to splat, four with restorations to stiles (12)

拍品專文

The design of these chairs clearly shows the strength of the influence of the published designs of the connoisseur Thomas Hope (d.1831). The X-frame back comes to these chairs from a tabouret pattern by Charles Percier via a chair in Hope's Gallery in his mansion/museum in Duchess Street (see: Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl.11, nos.3 and 4). The actual chair from Duchess Street was sold from the collection of the late Mrs. Marjorie Beatrix Fairbarns, in these Rooms, 9 July 1992, lot 87, and is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
An almost identical set is visible in theSmall Dining Room of Oulton Park, Cheshire, in H.Avray Tipping and C.Hussey, English Homes, Period IV, vol. II, London, 1928, p.218.