This stool's serpentined frame is wrapped by Roman foliage in the Louis XIV 'antique' manner popularised in the later 17th Century by the engravings of Jean and Pierre Lepautre, while its voluted and striated legs are flowered with the French Royal fleur-de-lys and King Louis XIV's sunflower badge. Such sunflowered-volutes, together with antique striations, feature on an armchair dating from the 1680's illustrated in G.Janneau, Les Sièges, Paris, 1967, fig.62, while a scroling stretcher and legs of very similar profile appeared on a table de milieu sold from the collection of Alice Tully, Christie's New York, 26-8 October 1994, lot 170.

A Louis XIV stool upholstered in contemporary Savonnerie and with a related fleur-de-lys enriched stretcher was sold by the British Rail Pension fund, Sotheby's London, 24 November 1988, lot 1.