A Charles X rosewood adjustable library armchair

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A Charles X rosewood adjustable library armchair
Decorated with lines and upholstered in patterned fabric, the reclining back with padded arms with lotus-carved scrolled terminals, on turned legs headed with paterae and terminating in brass caps and wooden castors, stamped Jeanselme

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Recorded in Le Mobilier Francais du XIXe Siecle, Ledoux-Lebard, Paris, 1984, p.374. Renowned from their seat furniture, Joseph-Pierre-Francois and Jean-Arnoux Jeanselme worked together from c1828. J.P.F. Jeanselme continued the business from c1848 and was later joined by his son Charles-Joseph-Marie

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