A 19thC Ebonised Napoleon III French Easy Armchair

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A 19thC Ebonised Napoleon III French Easy ArmchairOrigin: FrenchPeriod: Napoleon IIIProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1870Width: 29Height: 36 or 17 at seat with cushionDepth: 32 (all at extremities)The nineteenth century French easy armchair, being fully buttoned and with a coil sprung horse hair seat to a roll edged sleigh shape, ready for reupholstery, having turned ebonised legs and brass castors, the whole surviving from the latter half of nineteenth century France. The chair is in very original

The cream paint is likely early twentieth century with the green shade underneath being Victorian

A superb addition for the avid button collector or for those who appreciate true age and beauty

Her most famous theft was lifting a medieval posy ring from magpie Jim

and it has not been restored at any point

There is one small area of loss worn through on the middle front section around 3cms wide

Baron Amherst is renowned as a collector of books

The button is in excellent condition being complete and in tact with loop and has a wonderful even patination

Her top is set in two planks and the join is visible and when the table top is in the upright position it appears slightly off kilter but remains stable in all ways and the mechanism catch for the tilt top is in operational order and overall it remains an attractive piece in its entirety

the whole retaining its nineteenth century bottle green velvet upholstery and surviving from George III period England

signed with initials and dated 1854 inscribed on stretcher “Portrait of Philip Wiiliams of Wednesbury Oak Iron Works

Hagenback-Wallace Circus

is reminiscent of Pre-Raphaelite work

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