Lot 103
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A REGENCY POLYCHROME-DECORATED EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIR, the scrolled ring-turned toprail above a pierced splat painted with roses, flowers and gilt floral-sprays above a lozenge-patterned tablet, the downswept arms above a caned seat with squab-cushion covered in red florally-patterned cotton, the seat-rails decorated with peonies and roses on a gilt ground and flanked by further foliate-trails, upon ring-turned tapering sabre legs

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A REGENCY POLYCHROME-DECORATED EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIR, the scrolled ring-turned toprail above a pierced splat painted with roses, flowers and gilt floral-sprays above a lozenge-patterned tablet, the downswept arms above a caned seat with squab-cushion covered in red florally-patterned cotton, the seat-rails decorated with peonies and roses on a gilt ground and flanked by further foliate-trails, upon ring-turned tapering sabre legs

Lot Essay

While the antique forms of this chair with its turned, curved and ringed leg and baluster rail relates to patterns published in Thomas Sheraton's Encyclopediae, 1804, the closest pattern to this baluster, combined with the trellised panel, featured in the London Chairmakers' and Carvers' Book of Prices, 1823

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