A Pretty Button Back Velvet Drop-End Chesterfield Sofa c.1900 sub-Curios In the beginning

In the beginning

though few examples have survived and none of them are dated

A year later he moved to Paris

Provenance: Formerly of the Estate of Henry G

A Pretty Button Back Velvet Drop-End Chesterfield Sofa c.1900 sub-Curios In the beginningOrigin: English Period: Late Victorian Edwardian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 15 Height: 34. 5 inches Width: 60. 5 inches Depth: 31. 5 inches (all at extremities but with arm in upright position) The carcass upholstered in duck egg or powder blue button back velvet and ivory piping with feather filled seat cushions, the whole sitting on ring turned front legs and sabre rear legs, each on bakelite castors, having a knob operated mechanism for the