Lot 15
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A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY AND EBONY-INLAID SIDE CHAIRS

BY GEORGE BULLOCK, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY AND EBONY-INLAID SIDE CHAIRS
BY GEORGE BULLOCK, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with curved tablet toprail inlaid with stylised foliage and palms, on reeded stiles above a padded bowfront seat covered in fawn leather, on ring-turned tapering front legs and octagonal tapering back legs, minor restorations
32¾ in. (83 cm.) high; 20¾ in. (52.5 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep. (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's, 26 June 2001, lot 1068.
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Lot Essay

The design inlaid in ebony on the toprail is documented in the Wilkinson tracings (p.253). A related chair, the property of Napoleon Bonaparte during his period of exile on the island of St Helena, with a brass plaque declaring it be 'the last Napoleon sat on,' was sold by Calvin Bullock, Christie's, London, 8 May 1985, lot 103.

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