Elegant Dorset Chair, Mounted Photograph with Decorator's Notes hand-painted figure Really terrific

Really terrific

and learned that they were a bit of a thing during the Victorian era--some plain like this one

where at the very edge of the lip the wicker seems to have lost its very end

with a tiny surface scrape to the figure's nose along with his knees

Elegant Dorset Chair, Mounted Photograph with Decorator's Notes hand-painted figure Really terrificThis just struck me as a lovely thing a handsome chair to begin with, but granted an added elegance and evocativeness via the nature and tonalities of the photograph. With handwritten notes along the bottom, noting the $60 price of the chair and its potential placement in sitting room or bedroom, I assume this was one of a series of furniture options presented to a client by an interior decorator. But, of course, to me it looks like the stage of a