Lot 153
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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A SCANDINAVIAN MAHOGANY CANAPE with arched cresting and solid back and sides with scrolled terminals, the padded seat covered in red and white striped material, on slightly sabre legs headed by fluting, first half 19th Century

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A SCANDINAVIAN MAHOGANY CANAPE with arched cresting and solid back and sides with scrolled terminals, the padded seat covered in red and white striped material, on slightly sabre legs headed by fluting, first half 19th Century
67in. (170cm.) wide;

Lot Essay

The shape of this canapé is loosely related to the 1832 chair designs by Ludwig Schmidt Rumpf of Frankfurt, now in the Histrisches Museum, Frankfurt (illustrated in Heinrich Kreisel, Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1970, vol. III, fig. 502)

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