A Handsome Regency Period Mahogany Desk Chair c.1810 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage and the smell of garlic

and the smell of garlic buried with the corpse would repel it

The pictures references to vanitas are large and varied and include scrolls with the Turkish chapter

and the over-mantel developed into an elaborate frame for the family portrait over the chimneypiece

The overall colour is an eighteenth century inspired off white over an 1830s inspired light blue and the condition is sound with the paint distressed

A Handsome Regency Period Mahogany Desk Chair c.1810 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage and the smell of garlicOrigin: English Period: Regency Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1810 Width: 22 inches Height: 33. 25 inches Depth: 21 inches (all at extremities) The Regency mahogany open armchair having a shaped panel back and open scrolling arms on turned tapering front legs to rear sabre legs and the original black rexine covered seat, survives from the first decade of the nineteenth century. The chair is in pretty good original condition with the only areas or