Victorian Chinoiserie Ebonised Black Sofa c.1880

We have a very attractive and rather handsome looking antique Chinoiserie 3 seater sofa c.1890 sitting in lovely time worn condition. The sofa possesses some highly attractive features worthy of note are the well shaped arms, semi circular sides and backs to the frame, well turned legs and of course the little figures, decoration and animals to the black frame. Chinoiserie is wonderfully beautiful, and tends to depict realistic and fictitious animals, insects, people, foliage, structures and various other elaborate Asian designs... Numerous polishing periods go into the true technique of japanning, quality pieces will appear to have deep layers of gloss with the sheen of fine marble, but true antique pieces like the sofa will show signs of age and wear. Proving comfortable, with good springs and webbing to be base of the seat and of great scale, the lacquered decoration has wear in all of the expected areas, most notably to the arms displaying a nice genuine fine patination. The cream woven damask upholstery is clean with feather filled seat cushions and a pair of smaller cushions with little wear which could still be retained and happily used. Mark our upholsterer would charge £860 plus Vat to reupholster in the same style retaining the feather cushions. You would require approximately 8 metres of fabric which we are happy to assist in finding if you wish - please discuss after purchasing. The sofa sits well with genuine aging, a few of the castors have historic replacements but not an issue and we have the odd loss or two to the feet but again not new or affecting its use. We have ensured the piece is clean and ready for use. When purchasing from us we include delivery in the purchase price which is based on a one person delivery for England and Wales. Please call or email for quotes to Scotland, Northern Ireland, The Isles and for World-wide shipping. For any large items that require two people to lift the item, we ask that you are available at the time of delivery to be able to give our shipper a lift off the van and into your house with the item. If you are not able to lift items yourself, we ask that you have someone on hand at the time of delivery to assist our shipper with moving the item. We are happy to quote for a two person delivery if required.