A POLYCHROME-DECORATED ARMCHAIR

POSSIBLY POTSDAM

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A POLYCHROME-DECORATED ARMCHAIR
Possibly Potsdam
The rounded back carved with rocaille motifs and scallop-shells and padded seat covered with printed cotton depicting parrots and foliage, the acanthus-wrapped shaped scrolled arms above the waved apron, with asymmetrical scrolls and on cabriole legs headed by acanthus leaves, two legs repaired and part of a foot lacking, the decoration refreshed, minor restorations
41 in. (104 cm.) high

Lot Essay

This serpentined and medallion-backed fauteuil, with its shell cartouches and scalloped enrichments merged with Roman acanthus, relates to the mid-18th Century 'Rocaillen' furniture patterns published in Augsburg by Johann Georg Hertel after designs by Georg Michel Roscher and Franz Xaver Habermann (d. 1796) (H. Kreisel, ed., Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1970, vol. II, figs. 1079, 1082 and 1083). The robust form of the chair relates to those provided for the Neues Palais, Potsdam, in the 1760s such as that illustrated in J. Nicht, Die Möbel im Neuen Palais, Potsdam-Sanssouci, 1980, p. 48, cat. 84.

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