A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD DAYBED

AFTER A DESIGN BY GEORGE SMITH

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A GEORGE IV ROSEWOOD DAYBED
After a design by George Smith
With scrolled padded ends, shaped back and seat-cushion covered in green foliage damask, the back carved with acanthus and with a lion's head, the ends carved with scrolling foliage, above a foliage-carved seat-rail, on ring-turned baluster legs with lappeted feet and sunk castors

Provenance

Lady Summers, Thenford Lodge, Banbury, Oxfordshire, sold by her Executors, Dreweatt Neate Holloways house sale, 24 April 1996, lot 373.

Lot Essay

This daybed follows a design by George Smith published in his The Cabinetmaker and Upholsterer's Guide, London, 1826, pl. 136 (E. Joy, Pictorial Dictionary of British 19th Century Furniture Design, Woodbridge, 1977, p. 317).

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