ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF REGENCY ROSEWOOD AND CANED BERGERES
ATTRIBUTED TO GILLOWS, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with a curved toprail flanked by downswept sides and a buttoned black leather squab cushion, on tapering turned and reeded legs, with batten-carrying holes to the underside, spliced repairs to the back legs, the front feet tipped
32 ¾ in. (83 cm.) high; 19 ½ in. (50 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Caned chairs such as the present lot are designed in the early 19th Century French/antique manner, and with their hollowed backs, curved crests and Grecian-scrolled back legs, relate to seat patterns in George Smith's Collection of Designs for Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1808. This exact chair pattern, also fitted with a leather cushion, is illustrated in M. Jourdain, Regency Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1965, fig. 95. Their fine quality rosewood and reed-wrapped legs, are typical of furniture produced around 1810 by Gillows & Co. of Oxford Street, London and Lancaster.

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