拍品 86
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A PAIR OF REGENCY SIMULATED ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT LIBRARY OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with padded rectangular panelled back, armrests and drop-in seat covered in sky-blue mercerised cotton with maroon braid, the channelled frames with gadrooned finials to the back and arm terminals, carved with anthemion spandrels to the back and on the scrolling arm supports, on gadrooned turned tapering legs with conforming caps and castors, later front blocks (2)

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A PAIR OF REGENCY SIMULATED ROSEWOOD AND PARCEL-GILT LIBRARY OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with padded rectangular panelled back, armrests and drop-in seat covered in sky-blue mercerised cotton with maroon braid, the channelled frames with gadrooned finials to the back and arm terminals, carved with anthemion spandrels to the back and on the scrolling arm supports, on gadrooned turned tapering legs with conforming caps and castors, later front blocks (2)
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A pair of candelabra of this model were sold anonymously at Christie's London, 26 March 1981, lot 18. Slightly different parts were gilded and they were mounted in black marble bases. A further three-branch element was mounted in the nozzle on the figure's head

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Designed in the early 19th Century 'antique' manner the reed-capped columnar legs correspond to the ornament of a fire-screen in the French style illustrated in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interor Decoration, 1807, pl.14. They also appear on a Hope-style grained and gilded armchair in the Victoria and Albert Museum (see: R.Edwards, The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture, London, 1964, fig.184) Similar legs with reeded caps are used on a suite of chairs supplied by Morel and Seddon to Devonshire House, London, circa 1825 (see: F.Collard, Regency Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p.137)