Regency style nine-piece ebonised and gilt-painted salon suite, 20th century
Furniture
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LOT 8
Regency style nine-piece ebonised and gilt-painted salon suite, 20th century
Lot Estimate Change Currency
ZAR 18 000 - 20 000
About this Item
Regency style nine-piece ebonised and gilt-painted salon suite, 20th century
comprising: a sofa and eight matching armchairs; the chairs each with turned top rail centred by a rectangular painted tablet above a pierced lyre-shaped back, downswept arms, caned seats with floral silk loose cushion, raised on ring-turned tapering legs; the sofa with shaped cresting back rail, uphostered in floral silk fabric with two bolster cushions, raised on four sabre legs terminating in brass castors
(9)
(1) Sofa: height: 87cm; width: 215cm; depth: 70cm (2) Chairs: height: 86cm: width: 52cm; depth: 48cm
Notes
This suite draws directly from the Regency interiors of early nineteenth-century England and represents the height of Georgian Neo-classical design, a period when ebonised furniture with gilt highlights was considered the height of modern taste. Revival examples such as this often follow pattern-book designs by George Smith, whose 1808 'Collection of Designs for Household Furniture' defined the style.
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