Details
A SUITE OF LOUIS XV STYLE GILTWOOD SEAT FURNITURE
THE TAPESTRY GOBELINS, CIRCA 1770
Comprising a canapé, a pair of marquises and a set of six fauteuils à la reine in the style of N. Q. Foliot, each with padded rectangular back and serpentine seat within a leaf-tip carved frame carved with flower heads and shells on cabriole legs ending in scroll toes, upholstered in tapestry woven with ribbon-tied floral bouquets--the settee 71in. (181cm.) wide
PROVENANCE
Comte de Lariboisiere
Lady Beatty
Sir Alfred Chester Beatty
Related Gobelins tapestry seat coverings are discussed in E. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries, volume I, 1985, p.404. (9)
THE TAPESTRY GOBELINS, CIRCA 1770
Comprising a canapé, a pair of marquises and a set of six fauteuils à la reine in the style of N. Q. Foliot, each with padded rectangular back and serpentine seat within a leaf-tip carved frame carved with flower heads and shells on cabriole legs ending in scroll toes, upholstered in tapestry woven with ribbon-tied floral bouquets--the settee 71in. (181cm.) wide
PROVENANCE
Comte de Lariboisiere
Lady Beatty
Sir Alfred Chester Beatty
Related Gobelins tapestry seat coverings are discussed in E. Standen, European Post-Medieval Tapestries, volume I, 1985, p.404. (9)