拍品 170
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A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS attributed to Gillows of Lancaster, each with panelled tablet back above a pierced X-shaped stretcher and a needlework-covered seat, the arms on turned supports and with ring-turned tapering legs (2)

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A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY OPEN ARMCHAIRS attributed to Gillows of Lancaster, each with panelled tablet back above a pierced X-shaped stretcher and a needlework-covered seat, the arms on turned supports and with ring-turned tapering legs (2)

拍品专文

The dining-chair pattern with Grecian 'klismos' back and broad tablet crest-rail above scrolled and horizontal ribbon-splats that are tied by a flowered patera, derives from a French-style chair designed for the connoisseur Thomas Hope (d. 1832) and illustrated in his Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, pl. XI, no. 3. A suite of chairs with related reed-enriched backs, supplied by Gillows of Lancaster, was sold at Christie's house sale at Mere Hall, Cheshire, 23 May 1994, lot 106