Details
The shaped arched solid back with scrolling foliage and centered by a blind cartouche, the solid rectangular seat flanked by rounded ends, above a patera-enriched frieze, on rectangular tapering paneled legs with gadrooned feet
3312 in. (85.1 cm.), 7412 in. (189.2 cm.), 1714 in. (43.8 cm.) deep
Provenance
Michael Lipitch II; Christie's, London, 4 October 2001, lot 7.
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Lot Essay

This banqueting hall seat has hermed-legs evoking the Roman 'altar' popularized by C.H. Tatham's Etchings of Ancient Ornamental Architecture, London, 1799 (p. 46), while its Grecian palm-flowered pediment and frieze of libation-plates or paterae reflect the robust George IV antique style promoted by Henry Whitaker's Designs of Cabinet and Upholstery Furniture in the Most Modern Style, 1825.

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