A SUITE OF SOLID MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT SEAT FURNITURE, comprising:- a pair of open armchairs and a settee, the armchairs each with panelled husk-trailed shield-shaped padded back, arms and seat covered in pink floral-silk-damask, on patera-headed stiff-leaf-carved ring-turned tapering legs, the settee with slightly arched husk-trailed panelled back and bergère sides with downswept scrolled arms, restorations, one chair with later fillet to the seat-rail and covered in white calico, later gilt, the chairs stamped FS twice, one with pencil inscription Wrds., the back seat-rail of the settee replaced

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A SUITE OF SOLID MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT SEAT FURNITURE, comprising:- a pair of open armchairs and a settee, the armchairs each with panelled husk-trailed shield-shaped padded back, arms and seat covered in pink floral-silk-damask, on patera-headed stiff-leaf-carved ring-turned tapering legs, the settee with slightly arched husk-trailed panelled back and bergère sides with downswept scrolled arms, restorations, one chair with later fillet to the seat-rail and covered in white calico, later gilt, the chairs stamped FS twice, one with pencil inscription Wrds., the back seat-rail of the settee replaced
65¼in.(166cm.) wide (3)

Lot Essay

A related suite of seat furniture were sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 9 June 1990, lot 60

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