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    Sale 5915

    THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

    London

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    26 February 1998

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    Lot 464

    A giltwood armchair

    IN THE EGYPTIAN REVIVAL STYLE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

    Price realised

    GBP 1,495

    Estimate

    GBP 1,500 - GBP 2,000

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    A giltwood armchair
    In the Egyptian Revival Style, Early 20th Century
    The serpentine shaped back raised with three figures on a barge, with a cat and other symbols and hieroglyphics, between a pair of shaped arm supports pierced with standing figures and seat of interwoven twine, on two pairs of monopodia, joined by a turned stretcher

    Provenance

    Ramsay McDonald, probably acquired about 1924, thence by descent.

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    Saleroom Notice

    This lot may be dated late 19th/early 20th century.
    Provenance: Ramsay MacDonald, probably acquired about 1924, thence by descent.


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