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A pair of Regency mahogany and ebonised 'curricle' bergère armchairs attributed to Gillows image 1
A pair of Regency mahogany and ebonised 'curricle' bergère armchairs attributed to Gillows image 2
Lot 194

A pair of Regency mahogany and ebonised 'curricle' bergère armchairs attributed to Gillows

20 November 2013, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A pair of Regency mahogany and ebonised 'curricle' bergère armchairs attributed to Gillows

The arched caned backs and sides within moulded shaped top-rails, the leather squab cushions above caned seats on inswept legs headed by roundels, on brass cappings and castors, 55cm wide, 55cm deep, 83cm high (21.5in wide, 21.5in deep, 32.5in high). (2)

Footnotes

Gillows supplied 'Curricle' chairs in both mahogany and satinwood to Tatton Park, Cheshire in 1812. A pair of 'Curricle' chairs by Gillows in the collection at Lotherton Hall, Yorkshire were originally supplied to Richard Oliver Gascoigne for Parlington Hall, Aberford, see C.Gilbert, Furniture at Temple Newsam and Lotherton Hall, Leeds, 1978, vol.II, 1978, no.508.

See Christie's, London, 22 January 2009, lot 549 and 27 May 2010, lot 72 for similar 'curricle' caned bergère chairs attributed to Gillows, both lots with sabre legs. See also Christies, Property from Two Ducal Collections, Woburn Abbey, Bedford, 20-21 September 2004, lot 148 for a satinwood example with ball arm terminals.

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