Lot 56

- in good original condition showing wear consistent with age and use
- some looseness to wicker seats
- one chair with repair to back of one rear leg where stretcher joins, another with break to rattan seting on front edge, another with replaced stick; another with repairs to tops legs, possible replaced rear stretcher and metal reinforcements to underside of seat


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Beard Watson, Sydney, 1934
The Collection of Dr Edgar Bainton (1880-1956), Sydney
The Fred and Elinor Wrobel Collection, Sydney

Chairs of a similar design feature in the painting 'The Lacquer Room' by Grace Cossington Smith, housed in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales.