Lot Essay
The canted stretcher and blind chinoiserie fret relates to a chair from the Collection of Ralph Edwards, illustrated in R. Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London 1964, p.145, fig. III
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A MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIR, the arched rectangular padded back, arms and seat covered in Bargello-pattern yellow cotton, the beaded acanthus-carved scrolled arms with rosette terminals, on blind-fretwork square legs joined by a chamferred H-shaped stretcher