ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, CIRCA 1820

The chair, with Grecian-scrolled arms of Roman 'triclinium' couch form, is enriched with Roman foliage and palm-flowered tendrils in the robust 19th century antique manner such as evolved from the connoisseur Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807 and was popularised by P. and M. N. Nicholson's Practical Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and Complete Decorator, 1826. Related 'Rutland' pattern chairs, executed in the florid Louis Quatorze fashion associated with the Wyatt architectural dynasty, were supplied in 1823 by Gillows for Glynllifon, Wales (sold by the Coleg Meirion Dwyfor, Glynllifon, Carnaervonshire, Christie's, London, 9 March 2000, lot 101). A related chair design, with reeded legs, appears in a Gillow room scheme of May 1823 (Victoria & Albert Museum, Department of Drawings, no. E47-1952).