Lot 49
49
Various Properties
A GEORGE IV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY WINDOW SEAT, the rectangular padded green velvet-covered drop-in seat between pierced scroll arms linked by turned acanthus-carved arms on X-frame supports headed by a panel later mounted with foliage, on scroll feet

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A GEORGE IV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY WINDOW SEAT, the rectangular padded green velvet-covered drop-in seat between pierced scroll arms linked by turned acanthus-carved arms on X-frame supports headed by a panel later mounted with foliage, on scroll feet
39½in. (100cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Grecian window seats of this kind 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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