CIRCA 1830

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A WILLIAM IV ROSEWOOD SOFA
CIRCA 1830
The rectangular padded back, arms, squab and bolster cushions covered in cream cotton with matching piping, on panelled arm uprights above a bead-and-reel panelled seat rail, on leaf-wrapped tapering legs and reeded feet with sunk later ceramic castors, with bird's eye maple back rail
84 in. (213.5 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

A related design for 'A Dress Sofa' by J. Taylor was published in Rudolph Ackermann's A Repository of the Arts for February 1821. A related sofa with panelled uprights and tapering reeded legs is in the Billiard Room at Nostell Priory, Wakefield, Yorkshire. A similar sofa was sold by Mrs. R. D. Shafto, Christie's, London, 21 September 1005, lot 173. This was part of a group of furniture from Beamish sold by Mrs R. D. Shafto, in that sale, lots 140-178. The Shafto family returned to their ancestral seat, Bavington Hall, Northumberland, in the 20th century when they left Beamish.

The sofa is covered in Crowson Alaska brushed half Panama.

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