A Sculptural Early 20thC French Metal Garden Open Armchair sub-Art & Sculpture and it depicts Chinese style

and it depicts Chinese style designs applied to furniture

depicting a kneeling figure of a lady wearing a shrouded cloak her hands covering a large urn

The earliest dated English example harks back to 1863 though in 1815 one was lovingly crafted from army uniforms worn at the Battle of Waterloo (Tennant 1992 52)

and with great dexterity ex-changed them for the real ones

Creating your own hall of mirrors is an awful lot of fun

A Sculptural Early 20thC French Metal Garden Open Armchair sub-Art & Sculpture and it depicts Chinese styleOrigin: French Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 20 Height: 35 or 16 at seat Width: 21. 5 Depth: 18 (all at extremities) The elegantly shaped metal garden or bistro open armchair with splayed legs to pad feet and conjoining stretchers, the shaped curved arms giving the whole superb fluidity, the metal now worn with an attractive patination of rusting and wear to the paint survives from the first quarter of twentieth