LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III BLACK-JAPANNED AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED SOFA
LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Decorated with trailing flowers and foliage, a curved arched back and bowed seat, on square tapering legs painted with vases and bellflower swags and with splayed feet, loss and refreshments to decoration
84 in. (214 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

The arch-crested sofa, with elegant plinth-supported and herm-tapered legs, reflects the antique/Roman fashion popularized by Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co., Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterers Guide, 1788. Designed en suite with the card-tables (Lots 48 and 49), it is also japanned in the Etruscan vase fashion popularized in the 1770s by George III's court architect Robert Adam (d.1792).

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