Lot Essay
These stools, with their polychrome surfaces, chamfered legs and carved spandrels are rare examples of French painted neo-gothic furniture
CIRCA 1870
Details
A PAIR OF FRENCH GOTHIC REVIVIAL POLYCHROME-DECORATED STOOLS
Circa 1870
Each with square padded seat covered in close-nailed gilt-tooled red leather centering a rosette within a foliate-scrolled border, above an arched frieze carved with panelled and pierced flower sprays, on rectangular champfered legs centering quatrefoils, with tapering stepped feet
18½in. (47cm.) high, 19¼in. (49cm.) wide (2)
Circa 1870
Each with square padded seat covered in close-nailed gilt-tooled red leather centering a rosette within a foliate-scrolled border, above an arched frieze carved with panelled and pierced flower sprays, on rectangular champfered legs centering quatrefoils, with tapering stepped feet
18½in. (47cm.) high, 19¼in. (49cm.) wide (2)
Exhibited
New York, Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., Of Knights and Spires, 28 April-16 June, 1989, pp. 34-35, no. 13.
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