SEVEN REGENCY BY WILLIAM THOMS, CIRCA 1820, SEVEN OF LATER DATE

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A SET OF FOURTEEN ROSEWOOD-GRAINED AND PARCEL-GILT CANED OPEN ARMCHAIRS
SEVEN REGENCY BY WILLIAM THOMS, CIRCA 1820, SEVEN OF LATER DATE
Each with a baluster toprail centred by a tablet painted with whorled foliage, above a trellis splat and a squab cushion covered in lime-green silk on twelve chairs and coral material on two chairs, with scrolled arms on serpentine supports, on ring-turned sabre legs, the Regency chairs redecorated and three stamped twice 'W. THOMS' (14)

Provenance

The 2nd Viscount Rothermere (d.1978), Daylesford House, Gloucestershire.

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This lot has been withdrawn from the sale.

Lot Essay

These Grecian-scrolled and painted chairs relate to 'Drawing Room' chair patterns in Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary, 1803 (pl. 1). They bear the brand of the Exeter craftsman William Thoms, whose 1821 advertisement recording 'Furniture for sale and for inspection' bore the address 10 High Street, Exeter, Devon.
Four Regency side chairs with the same sphere-capped and reeded columnar legs and bearing the Thoms brand, were sold from the collecton of the late Mary, Viscountess Rothermere, Christie's New York, 16 April 1994, lot 126.

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