Butchoff

Medium / Material

Wood, upholstered

Dimensions

64.00cm wide   94.00cm high   61.00cm deep (25.20 inches wide  37.01 inches high  24.02 inches deep)

Description

Rising from castor shod tapering, turned and lobed front legs, with sabre legs to the rear; the arms faced with fluted uprights terminating in Grecian rosaces; the backs of square form and the show wood frames having conforming fluting, decorated in an ebonised and gilt.

Literature

The armchairs have very marked affinities with designs shown in Peter & Michael Angelo Nicholson’s ‘Practical Cabinet Maker, Upholsterer and Complete Decorator’, the highly regarded 1827 publication, and also Plate 116, published 1821, and shown in ‘Ackermann’s Regency Furniture & Interiors’, edited by Pauline Agius.

Current Condition

Excellent