PROBABLY BOMBAY, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF ANGLO-INDIAN CARVED HARDWOOD DECK CHAIRS
PROBABLY BOMBAY, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Each pierced frame elaborately and densely carved with flowering trees, seated Buddhas, buildings and floral vinery and raised on a curule-form base ending in animal feet (2)

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These chairs are modeled on a type of standing folding deck chair first seen in English furniture pattern books of the mid 19th century. The Heal and Son catalogue from 1866 advertised such chairs as 'suitable for India, China and the Colonies.' They were made for personal use on verandas as well as on ships decks that traveled the Far East. A deck chair from Bombay with carved lion's head terminals similar to the feet on the above lot is illustrated in Amin Jaffer's Furniture from British India and Ceylon, fig. 156.