A PARCEL-GILT WOOD TABOURET

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A PARCEL-GILT WOOD TABOURET
BY PIERRE LEGRAIN

A tabouret in the African style, the rectangular seat and back a continuous arc, canted on the sides and carved with series of pyramidal clusters of triangular devices further enhanced with gilding, the stool raised up on faceted conical legs terminating in faceted horn feet --20 1/2in. (52cm.) high

PROVENANCE
Jacques Doucet, Paris
Mes Audap, Godeau et Solanet, Paris, 8 November 1972, lot 44
Helene Rochas, Paris
Christie's Monaco, 9 December 1990, lot 33

LITERATURE
Lynne Thornton, "Negro Art and the Furniture of Pierre-Emile Legrain", The Connoisseur, November, 1972, p. 169; and Alastair Duncan, Art Deco Furniture, London, 1984, p. 132, no. 139