OF REGENCY STYLE, LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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AN ENGLISH GRAINED MAHOGANY SOFA
OF REGENCY STYLE, LATE 19TH EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The scrolled reeded and rosette-carved padded back, side and seat cover in striped beige moir/e silk, the toprail cetnreby stylised foliage, the beaded arm supports above wheatsheaf-carved sides, the seatrail centred by anthemia, on palm-wrapped splayed feet
84¼ in. (214 cm.) wide

Provenance

Christie's London, 21 January 1985, lot 71, where acquired by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The couch, with 'Apollonian' sunflowered and lyre-scrolled arms, relates to an elegant pattern for a 'Grecian sofa the squab, etc. French stuffed with bolsters and cushions,' issued in R. Ackermann, The Repository of Arts, 1811. With its Egyptian reeded and palm-wrapped frame and its arms 'hollowed' for bolsters, it relates in particular to the Edinburgh cabinet-maker William Trotter's 'Grecian Sofas' supplied in 1814 for the Library at Paxton, Scotland (F. Bamford, A Dictionary of Edinburgh Furniture Makers, Leeds, 1983, pl. 52A)

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