拍品专文
The lion-leg applied to a Grecian scroll-back chair derives from an 1805 pattern published by George Smith in his Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808, pl. 40; while the scrolled crest-rails' cluster-ribbons feature in a bedroom-chair pattern published by Thomas Sheraton, Cabinet Dictionary, London, 1803, pl. 28
A pair of armchairs of an almost identical model, but with hairy carving at the top of the legs, was sold in these Rooms from the collection of the late Michael Behrens, Esq., 19 April 1990, lot 160.
A pair of armchairs of an almost identical model, but with hairy carving at the top of the legs, was sold in these Rooms from the collection of the late Michael Behrens, Esq., 19 April 1990, lot 160.