拍品 165
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A PAIR OF REGENCY BLACK-JAPANNED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with back-scrolled rectangular padded back and drop-in seat covered in green velvet, the channelled frame with down-scrolled arms terminating in paws resting on spheres, on sabre legs terminating in scrolled toes, stamped IM (2)

细节
A PAIR OF REGENCY BLACK-JAPANNED AND PARCEL-GILT OPEN ARMCHAIRS, each with back-scrolled rectangular padded back and drop-in seat covered in green velvet, the channelled frame with down-scrolled arms terminating in paws resting on spheres, on sabre legs terminating in scrolled toes, stamped IM (2)

拍品专文

These Etruscan black and gilt chairs have backs scrolled after the Grecian form illustrated in Rudolph Ackerman's Repository of Arts, 1809, pl. 2. Thomas Sheraton's 'Herculaneum' and 'Curricle' patterns that he published in his Cabinet Dictionary of 1803, pl.7, used similar bacchic lion-paws.
A related bergere is illustrated in R. Edwards and P. Macquoid, The Dictionary of English Furniture, rev. ed., London, 1954, vol. I, p. 311, fig. 278