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A PAIR OF REGENCY PARCEL-GILT AND GRAINED ROSEWOOD BERGERES
Lot 289

A PAIR OF REGENCY PARCEL-GILT AND GRAINED ROSEWOOD BERGERES

CIRCA 1810

Closed16 July 2010

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GBP 12,500

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A PAIR OF REGENCY PARCEL-GILT AND GRAINED ROSEWOOD BERGERES
CIRCA 1810
Each with a curved backscrolled tablet toprail above padded back, sides and seat covered in beige buttoned-down slubbed cotton, with reeded arm supports and scrolled arm terminals, on sabre legs terminating in brass caps and castors
33¾ in. (86 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep (2)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 25 November 1976, lot 38.

Specialist note

This pair of 'arc-back' armchairs with out-scrolled tablet toprail and scrolled arm terminals are conceived in the Roman fashion and are similar in design to a set of armchairs recorded in the library at Chesterfield House, the London home of Lord Harewood and Her Royal Highness, The Princess Royal, before it was demolished in 1938 (see 'Chesterfield House, Mayfair, Country Life, 25 February 1922, p. 240, fig. 7).