Details
Each with an elaborate cartouche-shaped back, profusely carved with acanthus, flowers and pierced scrollwork, on cabriole legs, the arms and seat covered in Scalamandre Jeremiah Lee Mansion silk
3534 in. (91 cm.) high
Provenance
Rothschild Collection, Paris.
Acquired by Annie Laurie Crawford, later Aitken (1900-1984) from the above, 1927.
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Lot Essay

With their exaggerated cartouche-shaped backs, slender armrest supports and legs, pierced decoration to their knees and overall refined enhanced by polychrome decoration, these chairs are most likely of German origin.

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