Thomas Hope
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Rare and Fine Pair of English Regency Period Mahogany Library Klismos Chairs showing the typical flamboyance of the period yet still retaining the simplicity and taste of the earlier Georgian Era .
Superb example of the English Regency Klismos Library Chair in extraordinary good condition - both having that lovely untouched warm glow that only happens after several hundred years of sparing the rod when dusting and waxing . A English Collectors dream of high workmanship .
Note - The Klismos design derivates from the Ancient Greek Circa 5th Century . Probably by Gillows Lancaster to a typical design by Thomas Hope
These two chairs which are definite a pair had been separated for a number of years and have now been re-united ( a com
Provenance
Fine Private Collections
Literature: Research at present being undertaken
Condition: Very good state of repair .
Signed: This period of English Furniture is almost never signed
Ref No: 5712 -4557
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