A set of eight Regency painted dining chairs circa 1815, with later decoration

the rail backs above caned seats on sabre legs, decorated throughout with stylised laurel and key patern borders and line bandings on a black ground in the Etruscan style, with buttoned orange silk squab cushions, one standard chair with a fragment of an old depository label

Good overall restored condition. Later painted decoration. Some minor marks and stains to seat cushions. Re-caned. Minor old dormant worming. Minor wear to decoration. For further information on this Lot, please contact the English Furniture Department on 00 44 (0) 207 293-5470.
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