A SET OF SCANDINAVIAN BROWN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SEAT FURNITURE comprising a sofa and a pair of chairs, the chairs each with shield-shaped back with fluted tablet, the channelled interlaced splat on serpentine seat covered in red silk with fluted seat-rail on fluted sabre legs headed by paterae, one lacking three paterae, the sofa en suite but with panelled back, late 18th Century, one with later blocks, restorations, redecorated
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A SET OF SCANDINAVIAN BROWN-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SEAT FURNITURE comprising a sofa and a pair of chairs, the chairs each with shield-shaped back with fluted tablet, the channelled interlaced splat on serpentine seat covered in red silk with fluted seat-rail on fluted sabre legs headed by paterae, one lacking three paterae, the sofa en suite but with panelled back, late 18th Century, one with later blocks, restorations, redecorated
the sofa 80in. (203cm.) (3)
Lot Essay
Four scarlet-painted and parcel-gilt chairs from this set were sold in these Rooms 26 March 1987, lot 143