Live Auction 4215Christie's Interiors - Style & Spirit
A BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD CANAPE
Lot 13

A BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD CANAPE

PROBABLY WEST INDIES, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed7 February 2012

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GBP 3,437

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A BRAZILIAN ROSEWOOD CANAPE
PROBABLY WEST INDIES, SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The shaped back centred by two roundels with spiral reeded rails and baluster supports above the caned seat, on turned baluster spiral reeded legs
42 in. (107 cm.) high; 81½ in. (207 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

Specialist note

For similar examples of seat furniture inspired by fashionable English pattern books of the period see Philip Sturum, West Indian Antique Furniture of the Lesser Antilles 1740-1940, Antiques Collectors Club 2007, p. 151.