A Regency Period Painted Pine Faux Bamboo Gothic Side Chair c.1825 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Papier-mâché itself became an industry

Papier-mâché itself became an industry in England in 1772 when Henry Clay of Birmingham took out a patent for its making and as a result produced the inexpensive plastic of its time

and the best Louis XVI examples in exotic woods are exceedingly graceful and elegant

Both chairs show a consistent amount of wear to their original paintwork

chips and two hairline cracks but these are surface cracks due to change in temperature and there are no major areas of damage or signs of worm

A Regency Period Painted Pine Faux Bamboo Gothic Side Chair c.1825 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage Papier-mâché itself became an industryOrigin: EnglishPeriod: RegencyProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1810 25Width: 16Height: 32. 5 or 17. 5 at seatDepth: 17The decorative Regency faux bamboo side chair, displaying distressed grey green paintwork, the splat with pierced Gothic quatrefoils, to bamboo supports and a cane panel seat over splayed and turned simulated bamboo legs and stretchers, and surviving from the first quarter of nineteenth century England. The chair is in good original