A SET OF TWELVE ROYAL LATE GEORGE III CREAM AND...
Comprising two armchairs and ten side chairs, each caned back with a top rail with central tablet depicting a painted scene representing the arts, sciences and seasons, flanked by turned tapering columnar uprights decorated with trailing polychrome flowers surmounted by urn finials, the bowed seat on similarly decorated turned tapering legs, the seats upholstered with striped dark green, yellow and white striped silk squab cushions, eleven bearing Queen Victoria's inventory brand of a crowned 'VR', one back rail replaced, two painted tablets signed 'HM', refreshments to the decoration
The armchairs: 34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm wide); 22 in. (56 cm.) deep
The side chairs: 34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 201⁄2. in. (52 cm wide); 20 in. (51 cm.) deep
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The Collection of Her Majesty Queen Victoria (1837-1901).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1995, lot 170.
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Comprising two armchairs and ten side chairs, each caned back with a top rail with central tablet depicting a painted scene representing the arts, sciences and seasons, flanked by turned tapering columnar uprights decorated with trailing polychrome flowers surmounted by urn finials, the bowed seat on similarly decorated turned tapering legs, the seats upholstered with striped dark green, yellow and white striped silk squab cushions, eleven bearing Queen Victoria's inventory brand of a crowned 'VR', one back rail replaced, two painted tablets signed 'HM', refreshments to the decoration
The armchairs: 34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm wide); 22 in. (56 cm.) deep
The side chairs: 34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 201⁄2. in. (52 cm wide); 20 in. (51 cm.) deep
Provenance
The Collection of Her Majesty Queen Victoria (1837-1901).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 10 November 1995, lot 170.
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