A Regency Period Painted Open Armchair c.1810

Origin: English
Period: Regency
Provenance: Unknown
Date: c.1810
Height: 35” or  18” at seat
Width: 21”
Depth: 20”

The very attractive beech framed open armchair with the beautifully ivory painted finish, with gilded highlights to the whole, ready for re-upholstery, having elegant shaped arms to baluster turned supports to a geometric lattice pierced splat and to tapering legs, the whole surviving from Regency period England.

The chair is lovely original untouched order making it hugely appealing. The frame is in good order throughout with expected wear to the right areas and a good patina and colour. 

The influences on Regency design and taste were legion; from Sheraton’s neoclassicism, Henry Holland’s Anglo-French taste, the Greek revival of Thomas Hope, and the Chinoiserie favoured by the Prince Regent, to an interest in the Gothic, Old English and rustic. The Regency attitude to interior decoration often involved treating each room as a unit with individual furnishings and wall decorations in harmony of theme or colour scheme. 

This chair shows some of the influence of a certain John Gee. The brand of the Wardour Street chair-maker John Gee was established in Soho in 1799. He was described as ‘Chairmaker and Turner to His Majesty’ and his firm was granted a Royal Warrant in 1804.

A very elegant and pretty armchair with an un-meddled with surface.