Object Description
Rare Regency long set of 18 antique dining chairs made of simulated Rosewood, these are the classic Regency shape with sabre legs and drop in seats, they are comfortable and deep without being too wide for easy access to a crowded dinner table, they are made of simulated rosewood, usually beech or other indigenous hardwood meticulously painted too look like rosewood, this process was not cheap even then and was at the very height of fashion – simulated timber was used extensively in the most famous of Regency Royal Residences, Brighton Pavilion, commissioned by the Prince Regent himself (later King George IV) and, if you have not yet, then go.
English circa 1815