Pair of Regency Architectural Gothic Hall Chairs

Pair of Regency Architectural Gothic Hall ChairsAn pair of unusual oak hall chairs of the late Regency, in the manner of George Smith or Richard Bridgens England, circa 1825. Why we like them The architectural boldness and chunkiness of these hall chairs is highly unusual. Also of great colour and natural patination, these chairs are highly decorative and rare. The triumphal arched backs of these chairs are fretted in the romantic 'Elizabethan' fashion of medieval window tracery, as introduced in

Presented in very good antique condition

Lot 54 (£3

now in the Morning Room at Nemours Mansion

A superb Irish George II style armchair in walnut

A pair of brackets of related design was sold Christie's London

The Marquis had a special interest and taste for English furniture and records show in the late 1770s

modelled after a design by Thomas Hope and informed by Ancient Greek examples

of which these are a fine example

with fluted and achanthus-wrapped capitals

mounted as table lamps

Exceptional quality of mahogany

almost certainly by the celebrated firm of Gillows of Lancaster and London