Description
An English 18th-century carved mahogany library armchair – or bergère – of good rich colour.
George III, circa 1780.
This antique Sheraton-period armchair, sometimes described as a bergère (bergere) chair, is raised on reeded square tapering legs which merge, headed by a carved rosette panel, to support the arms via free-standing carved, reeded, shaped columns.
The square moulded show-wood top rail is centred by a raised and fluted panel.
An elegant, well-proportioned and comfortable Georgian drawing-room armchair. Also suitable for use as a desk chair. Well patinated, sturdy in the joints and ready-to-use.
Measures:
W 72 cm (28 1/2”)
D 70 cm (27 1/5”)
H 98 cm (38 ½”).
Literature:
Ralph Edwards CBE FSA The Shorter Dictionary of English Furniture Hamlyn, London, Fourth Impression 1972, p. 160, fig. 175, for a chair of similar design including paterae and fluting, in The Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
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