A French Shell Backed & Ebonised Sofa c.1930 sub-Mirrors & Lighting two with sea bed encrustations

two with sea bed encrustations

as the label goes on to read “made exclusively for Aspreys for the Great Parisian Exhibition 1899” and made by a fine French maker in Paris itself

Potter created portraits of animals

The field of the Oranje-Nassau shield (on the left of the design) should be more of a blue but this has evidently darkened to a blue/black

A French Shell Backed & Ebonised Sofa c.1930 sub-Mirrors & Lighting two with sea bed encrustationsOrigin: French Period: Art Deco Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1930 Height: 29. 5 or 18 at seat Width: 80 Depth: 38 The shell or scalloped shaped sprung back sofa, in a cerulean coloured fabric, having tapered cone ebonised legs, hailing from the Art Deco period, the whole of deep and roomy proportions and surviving from the second quarter of twentieth century France. In good sturdy order, the fabric being first decade of the 21st century with some