Elegant Dorset Chair, Mounted Photograph with Decorator's Notes hand-painted figure These are in perfect condition

These are in perfect condition

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

but perhaps corresponds with the idea of some sort of thread or line

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

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

Elegant Dorset Chair, Mounted Photograph with Decorator's Notes hand-painted figure These are in perfect conditionThis 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