Exotic Christopher Dresser chairs influenced by Egypt motifs

Although catalogued by Smiths of Newent (20% buyer’s premium) as a chair from the early 19th century Empire period, this ebonised mahogany, gilt and polychrome side chair is more probably from the mid-Victorian period.

It is likely to have been among the Aesthetic movement chair designs created in the 1870s by Chris…

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