Live Auction 2504A Trumbauer Estate on The Philadelphia Main Line
A PAIR OF REGENCY BLACK-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DAYBEDS
Lot 607

A PAIR OF REGENCY BLACK-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DAYBEDS

CIRCA 1815, PARTIALLY RECONSTRUCTED

Closed15 April 2011

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A PAIR OF REGENCY BLACK-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DAYBEDS
CIRCA 1815, PARTIALLY RECONSTRUCTED
Each with a squab cushion, padded sides and bolster cushion covered in apricot silk above a caned seat on turned legs, later brass casters, restorations and replacements, redecorated, the removeable panels formerly caned
77 in. (195.6 cm.) wide (2)

Supplied to Edmund Pollexfen Bastard, Esq. (1784-1835) for Kitley, Devonshire and by descent to
Mrs. John Bastard, Kitley House, Yealmpton, Devon, sold Christie's House Sale, 19-20 October 1987, lots 808 and 809.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 14 September 2000, lot 87.

Specialist note

The scrolled back and compass-ended Grecian sofa with caster-fitted columnar feet evolved from a 'Chaise Longue' pattern in Thomas Sheraton's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793. One of these beech and caned sofas was commissioned by Edmund Pollexfen Bastard (d. 1835), following his succession in 1806 to the Kitley estates in Devon. This may have been the couch that was reupholstered in 1857 by the Ludgate Hill cabinet-maker and upholsterer, Robert Rough, and invoiced in Bed Room (K) as 'An extra [large] bedroom couch stufed [sic] with all horse hair ... A square pillow for ditto filled with feathers in fustian case. Covering couch with squab, bolster, & square pillow with damask, gimp, cord, & bolster rosette' (Kitley MSS).