A PAIR OF ANGLO-INDIAN SOLID EBONY CANED ARMCHAIRS

PROBABLY GALLE DISTRICT, CEYLON, CIRCA 1850

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A PAIR OF ANGLO-INDIAN SOLID EBONY CANED ARMCHAIRS
PROBABLY GALLE DISTRICT, CEYLON, CIRCA 1850
The carved toprail with foliate ends above a caned back and seat with reeded scrolled arms and downswept leaf-carved supports, on scrolled legs (2)

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Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 30 November 2001, lot 127.

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This chair is typical of ebony furniture produced in the Galle District of Ceylon in the mid-19th Century. H.C. Sirr in his account of Ceylon published in 1850, noted how in Colombo there was available 'the most exquisitely carved ebony furniture conceivable' (A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London, 2001, p. 378). This form of elaborately-carved chair was made over a long period of time, their design being influenced by English chairs of the early 19th Century. A related chair was sold anonymously, Christie's, London, 12 February 1998, lot 446 and another is in the Peabody Essex Museum (ibid., cat. no. 186, p. 378).