A PAIR OF SWEDISH NEO-CLASSICAL GILTWOOD AND 'BRONZED' BERGERES
Lot 299

A PAIR OF SWEDISH NEO-CLASSICAL GILTWOOD AND 'BRONZED' BERGERES

LATE 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF EPHRAIM STAHL

Closed2 May 2013

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GBP 3,000

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A PAIR OF SWEDISH NEO-CLASSICAL GILTWOOD AND 'BRONZED' BERGERES
LATE 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF EPHRAIM STAHL
Each padded over-scrolled back and downcurved arms covered in green felt, supported by seated griffins and with foliate and rosette decorated rails, on turned tapering foliate-carved legs headed by rosettes
37 in. (94 cm.) high; 24¾ in. (63 cm.) wide (2)

Specialist note

A closely related chair by Ephraim Stahl, one of a set of 12 made for Queen Fredrika's Audience Room at Gripsholm, Sweden, circa 1803, is illustrated in Hakan Groth, Neoclassicism in the North, Swedish Furniture and Interiors 1770-1850, London, 1994, p. 194, fig. 13.