SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A WILLIAM IV GILTWOOD TWO-SEATER SOFA
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The out-scrolled back, padded sides and cushion covered in powder blue floral material, the reeded and scroll-carved frame with leaf-wrapped terminals above a serpentine-fronted rail and on leaf-wrapped and reeded baluster legs terminating in foliate-cast caps and castors
38 in. (96 cm.) high; 57 in. (145 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

An interesting feature of this sofa is the voluted truss-scrolled arms and stump legs, wrapped in richly-carved Roman acanthus and Grecian palms in the robust 19th Century antique Louis Quatorze fashion popularised by T. King's Modern Style of Cabinet Work Exemplified, 1834.

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