Each with curved tablet toprail and squab cushion covered in dark brown silk, with a caned seat and panelled apron, on sabre legs headed by tassels, one chair stamped twice 'T BIRD' and inscribed in red paint '3542', each stamped 'G.W.', redecorated
31¹⁄₂ in. (80 cm.) high; 22¹⁄₂ in. (57 cm.) wide; 23 in. (58.5 cm.) deep

Acquired from Tarquin Bilgen, London, 2015.

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Lot Essay

This pattern of parlour or drawing-room chair, japanned Etruscan-black with golden tasseled epaulette corners, has an upholstered klismos-tablet corresponding to a chair in Rudolph Ackerman's Repository of the Arts, 1810 (pl. 12) that was described as being 'very handsome and truly comfortable... with a French cushion, and stuffed back'. The cornucopiae-scrolled legs featured on drawing-room chair patterns issued by Ackerman in 1814 (pl. 66) and probably derived from Morgan and Sanders, cabinet-makers and upholsterers of Catherine Street, Strand, whose work received praise at this time.
The stamps are likely to be those of two journeymen, rather than the chairmaker himself, which would account for the different stamps.
A pair of Klismos chairs, almost certainly from the same set was sold Christie's, London 25 November 2004, lot 98.