A LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL A LA REINE

CIRCA 1710

Details

A LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL A LA REINE
Circa 1710
The rectangular padded back, arms and seat covered in close-nailed red leather, the serpentine cresting carved with lambrequin and acanthus scrolls centered by a rosette, the corners with scallop-shell clasps, the uprights with bellflowers and foliage on a pounced ground, the outset arms terminating in rosettes, above a waved seatrail centered by a scallop-shell, on cabriole legs headed by further satyr-masks with feathered headdresses and terminating in hoof feet

Provenance

Hubert de Givenchy

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Please note that the provenance for this lot is not as stated in the catalouge. The provenance should read as follows:
An almost identical fauteuil is still in the collection of Hubert de Givenchy.

Lot Essay

An identical armchair is in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Inv. No. 25-1219), whilst another was exhibited at the 1992 Biennale des Antiquaires, Grand Palais, Paris, by Galerie Steinitz.

An interesting pen and ink drawing, probably of Parisian authorship and executed circa 1715, is in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. In an album assembled by Daniel Crnstrom while serving as secretary to the Swedish Ambassador to the court of Louis XIV, it shows a number of possible variants in form and sculpture for a similar chair. (M. Jarry, Le Sige Franais, Fribourg, 1973, p. 78, fig. D23).

A related pair of chairs from the collection of Lady Baillie, Leeds Castle, Kent, was sold anonymously at Christie's London, 8 December 1994, lot 527.