Sale 5042
London, South Kensington
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2 July 2014
Price realised
GBP 15,000
Estimate
A PAIR OF REGENCY MAHOGANY CANED LIBRARY BERGERES EARLY 19TH CENTURY Each with reeded frame and later buttoned leather squab cushions and padded arms, on baluster turned tapering reeded legs and brass castors stamped 'B S & P' 37 ¾ in. (96 cm.) high; 24 ¾ in. (63 cm.) wide; 28 in. (71 cm.) deep
Provenance
Private Collection, London.
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This bergere chair form was known in 1803 as an 'Ashburnham' chair according to Gillows Estimate Sketch Book of that year. Related chair patterns feature in the firm's early 19th-century room plans preserved at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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