19th Century English Regency Painted and Gilt Decorated Settee
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An Extremely Elegant Painted and Parcel Gilt English Regency Period Settee, Caned Throughout and with Long Squab Cushion.
This settee is rectangular in its basic outline with the gently curving arm supports and bowed front rail. The piece stands on four sabre-shaped back legs and four turned front leg with gilt collar details, all on their original socket castors.
The settee is decorated primarily in black and gilt - easily the most popular colour combination in this period. This head rail is beautifully decorated with panels of vibrantly painted flowers and grisaille panels of musical trophies featuring a timpani and trumpets. The timpani in this period was still largely considered a military instrument, most often encountered mounted on a horse in a cavalry regiment rather than as part of a musical ensemble, and so this choice of decoration may well have been intended to show that the original owner had military links of some sort.
Large enough to comfortably seat three people, this settee is of unusually grand scale and is a particularly attractive example of its kind.
H 87cm x W 196cm x D 67cm
H 34¼” x W 77¼” x D 26½”
Seat Height: 44cm
Seat Depth: 60cm
An Extremely Elegant Painted and Parcel Gilt English Regency Period Settee, Caned Throughout and with Long Squab Cushion.
This settee is rectangular in its basic outline with the gently curving arm supports and bowed front rail. The piece stands on four sabre-shaped back legs and four turned front leg with gilt collar details, all on their original socket castors.
The settee is decorated primarily in black and gilt - easily the most popular colour combination in this period. This head rail is beautifully decorated with panels of vibrantly painted flowers and grisaille panels of musical trophies featuring a timpani and trumpets. The timpani in this period was still largely considered a military instrument, most often encountered mounted on a horse in a cavalry regiment rather than as part of a musical ensemble, and so this choice of decoration may well have been intended to show that the original owner had military links of some sort.
Large enough to comfortably seat three people, this settee is of unusually grand scale and is a particularly attractive example of its kind.
H 87cm x W 196cm x D 67cm
H 34¼” x W 77¼” x D 26½”
Seat Height: 44cm
Seat Depth: 60cm
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