CIRCA 1830

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A WILLIAM IV WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT LONG CENTRE STOOL
CIRCA 1830
Decorated on both sides, with padded seat covered in yellow repp, with scrolled ends and serpentine seat-rails carved with rockwork and S-scrolls, on cabriole legs with later castors, repaired break to one central leg, the seat-rail inscribed in ink '131'
27¼ in. (69 cm.) high; 74 in. (188 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The seat, with scrolled arms in the manner of the Roman triclinium couch, is serpentined in the mid-18th century French picturesque manner and embellished with shell-scalloped and water-bubbled cartouches and Roman foliage. Such bubbled cartouches featured on 18th century cabriolet chairs, bearing the brand of the Parisian menuisier Lebas (T. Murdoch (ed.), Boughton House, The English Versailles, London, 1992, p. 24, pl. 6). These Louis XV forms were revived in England in the early 19th century to harmonise with the Louis XIV architecture, such as the Wyatt dynasty of architects introduced at the palatial residences of Windsor Castle, Apsley House and York House (now Lancaster House)

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