Lot Essay
The source for the splat centred by a swagged urn and set within a pierced rounded vase is a chair pattern in A. Hepplewhite and Co., The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pl. 4 (see: E. White, The Pictorial Dictionary of British 18th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1990, p. 87)