Set of Four Empire Chairs, Franconia, circa 1815

Set of four Empire or early Biedermeier chairs standing on ebonized tapered legs, the front legs with gilded lion-paw feet. The aprons are straight. The seats are upholstered and newly covered in beige fabric. The burlwood backrests are exceptionally designed, with an openwork detail in the form of a globe and gilded ram heads. A scrolling foliate decoration forms the upper edge of the backrests. Literature: Georg Himmelheber: Biedermeiermöbel, Munich 1991. For a comparable type, see p. 41, plate 4.