A SET OF SIX EARLY-VICTORIAN OAK SIDE CHAIRS

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A SET OF SIX EARLY-VICTORIAN OAK SIDE CHAIRS
Each with a pierced confronting C-scroll and lozenge geometric rectangular back flanked by spirally-turned uprights with finials and below a pierced S-scroll and foliate toprail, the toprail centred by an eagle with outspread wings standing on a pole, above a padded drop-in seat covered in brown leather, the seat in a foliage-carved border, on spirally-turned legs joined by conforming stretchers (6)

拍品专文

Antiquarians of the early 19th Century associated spiral-columned Indian ebony chairs with Queen Elizabeth I. These chairs relate to 17th Century style patterns such as those issued by Thomas King in Specimens of Furniture in the Elizabeth and Louis Quatorze Style, 1835. They also relate to 'Elizabethan' chairs illustrated in watercolours executed in the mid-19th Century and assembled in a book by the High Wycome chair-maker, Amos Catton (C. Gilbert, 'The Amos Catton Pattern Book', Regional Furniture, vol. V, 1991. p.67, fig. 13).