Lot 26
26
A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD TABOURETS, each with rectangular padded seat and blue silk-velvet loose cover with silver thread border and tasselled fringe, the channelled scrolled legs joined by a waved channelled H-shaped stretcher and scroll feet, later blocks, possibly re-railed

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD TABOURETS, each with rectangular padded seat and blue silk-velvet loose cover with silver thread border and tasselled fringe, the channelled scrolled legs joined by a waved channelled H-shaped stretcher and scroll feet, later blocks, possibly re-railed
19¼in. (49.5cm.) wide; 17¼in. (44cm.) high; 16in. (40.5cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W.1., recorded in the Large Drawing Room in the pre-1927 inventory and in 1939
Exhibited
London, 25 Park Lane, W.1., Three French Reigns, February 21-April 5 1933, no. 522 (Catalogue, p. 72, fig. 61, one only)

Lot Essay

A very similar pair of stools was sold from the Seligmann collection, Sotheby's Monaco, 14 June 1981, lot 79, and again in the Florence J. Gould Collection, Sotheby's Monaco, 25 June 1989,
lot 674. A further related pair was sold at Sotheby's New York, 22 May 1993, lot 218

A pair of fauteuils, traditionally thought to be Portuguese, at the château de Fontainebleau, acquired by the garde-meuble impérial in 1856 and exhibited in the l'appartement du Pape, have closely related stretchers, which suggests a non-French origin for the whole group

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