Artist: William Tatham, Thomas Bailey & John Sanders
Date: 1812
Size: 8 x 96 cm
Museum: Royal Collection (London, United Kingdom)
Technique: Wood
A pair of council chairs of carved and gilded pine and beechwood, covered in red velvet with gold trimmings and fitted with a cushion and valence and backs shaped in the form of Roman chariots. These magnificent chairs epitomise the fully developed Roman manner that George IV adopted for the interiors at Carlton House from c. 1805 using the leading Mayfair cabinet-makers and interior decorators, Marsh & Tatham (subsequently Tatham, Bailey & Sanders). The introduction of this grandiose style, which gathered pace after the establishment of the Regency in 1812, eventually obliterated the majority of Henry Holland
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