A PAIR OF REGENCY EBONISED AND GOLD-DECORATED ARMCHAIRS

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A PAIR OF REGENCY EBONISED AND GOLD-DECORATED ARMCHAIRS
Each with a toprail decorated with a twisting-ribbon band above a pierced vertical splat, with downswept arms on turned baluster supports, the upholstered seats with a buttoned squab cushion covered in pink silk, on ring-turned tapering legs headed by flower-head centred panels , one chair with pencil inscription to the underside 'LL93', redecorated (2)

拍品专文

This form of 'Roman tripod' splat features on a chair pattern in the Estimate Sketch Book of the mid-1790s of Gillows of London and Lancaster (L. Boynton, Gillows Furniture Designs 1760-1800, Royston, 1995, pl. 30b), and on a set of japanned chairs purchased around this time by Matthew Brettingham (d.1809) for Soho House, Birmingham (sold by order of the Executors of the later Major Eustace Robb, Great Tew Park, Oxfordshire, Christie's house sale, 1987, lot 142).