A 19thC French Painted & Upholstered Settee c.1880 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage was much sought after as

was much sought after as a wife and at 16 was contracted to be married to Charles

of botanical interest

we have resprung and re-webbed the seat

On his head is a full (if ever so slightly thinning) shock of ginger hair

The clear Chinese influence on this lantern is seen in the beautiful fluid shaped canopied top and the shape and decoration to the finial

A 19thC French Painted & Upholstered Settee c.1880 sub-Furniture- Boxes & Luggage was much sought after asOrigin: FrenchPeriod: 3rd RepublicProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1880Height: 35. 5 or 21 at seatWidth: 58. 25Depth: 31 (all at extremities)The painted French two seater settee of beautiful proportions, showing the original French grey green paint now worn with age, the curved and swept enveloping carcass having scalloped sides and seven fluted tapering legs with floral cartouches, the whole being freshly upholstered in a floral linen fabric of green and