A Regency, later ivory painted, triple chair-back settee circa 1810

the three oval top rails painted with allegorical vignettes over waisted trellis splats, the downscrolled arms and lion's paw supports over a caned seat on four turned tapering flared front legs

The arrangement of a painted tablet above a pierced diamond trellis splat has close affinities with the backs on a chair back settee and a pair of armchairs from a larger suite by John Gee illustrated in Christopher Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, 1996, p. 218, pl. 380.

A pair of armchairs of the same design to the present lot is illustrated in Lanto Synge, Great English Furniture, 1991, p. 238. Another closely related pair is illustrated in Christopher Claxton Stephens and Stuart Whittington, 18th Century English Furniture, The Norman Adams collects ion, 1983, p.90. A further similar example is illustrated in Margaret Jourdain, Regency Furniture, 1948, p.76, fig. 31. Another armchair of this type is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Ralph Edwards, English Chairs, 1970, fig. 108, and Ralph Fastnedge, Sheraton Furniture, 1983, p.143, fig. 15.

A pair of armchairs of this model which were formerly in the collects ion of Joe Blanchard, sold Replica Shoes 's London, 3 May 1996, lot 51.