A SET OF EIGHTEEN REGENCY STYLE GREEN AND GOLD-PAINTED ARMCHAIRS

BY BERTRAM AND SON, FIVE CIRCA 1835 AND ORIGINALLY CANED, THIRTEEN LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A SET OF EIGHTEEN REGENCY STYLE GREEN AND GOLD-PAINTED ARMCHAIRS
BY BERTRAM AND SON, FIVE CIRCA 1835 AND ORIGINALLY CANED, THIRTEEN LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with a turned and reeded curved top-rail and a roundel-centered lattice-work horizontal splat and scrolled arms with lion's paw supports with spirally-fluted turned outswept supports, four of the five previously caned chairs with printed paper label Bertram & Son/100 & 101/Dean St., Oxford St., W./Upholsterers/AND/Cabinet Makers/Established 1830, the thirteen remaining chairs stamped BERTRAM&SON and DEANST.OXFORDST.W., each bearing a later pressed metal inventory label M26, redecorated (18)

Provenance

Edward James, West Dean Park, Sussex; sold Christie's on the Premises, 2,3 and 6 June 1986, lot 496 (a set of eighteen).
The Property of a New York Private Collector; Sotheby's, New York, 21 April 1989, lot 237 (a set of twenty).

Lot Essay

William Bertram & Son established their Soho based business in 1830 and as evident in the offered chairs, both stamped and labelled their furniture. A Victorian green-japanned and parcel-gilt occasional table by Bertram and Sons, from The Property of a European Foundation, was sold Christie's, New York, 18 October 2002, lot 311 ($45,410).

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