PROBABLY DUTCH COLONIAL, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY

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AN INDIAN CARVED EBONY AND CANED SOFA
PROBABLY DUTCH COLONIAL, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Carved throughout with flowers and foliage with an undulating top rail and spiral turned spindles with scrolled rope twist carved arms on vase turned supports and with a caned seat, a foliate and scroll carved front rail and spiral and ring turned legs
35in. (89cm.) high, 26in. (67cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

From the mid-18th century, antiquarian connoisseurs such as Horace Walpole prized such richly-flowered ebony furniture as exemplars of the Tudor and Elizabethan styles, and a related seat served as a throne for King George III on his visit in 1789 to Cotehele in Cornwall. A related 'Ashmole' chair, displayed at Oxford from the 17th century, was illustrated in Henry Shaw's Specimens of Ancient Furniture, 1836. This settee features spirally-reeded arms and legs fashionable around 1800.
A closely related example was sold Christies, London, 12 November 1998, lot 159.

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