Pair of Regency Ebonized, Polychrome-Decorated and Parcel-Gilt Side Chairs

Pair of Regency Ebonized, Polychrome-Decorated and Parcel-Gilt Side Chairs
Early 19th century
Each back with inset square panel depicting putti and allegorical female figures playing musical instruments above a bowfronted caned seat raised on splayed sabre legs joined by stretchers, the toprail and stiles with stenciled neoclassical motifs. Height 32 1/2 inches (83.5 cm), width 19 1/2 inches (49.5 cm), depth 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm).

Cf. an armchair from the Collection of Edward Hudson, the noted English furniture collector, 'with decoration in Pompeian style', almost certainly from the same set, Macquoid and Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, 1983, rev. ed., vol. I, p. 309, fig. 272.

C Property from the Estate of an Upper East Side Collector