CIRCA 1700

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
CIRCA 1700
Each with rectangular back and seat covered in close-nailed and foliate patterned red cut silk velvet, the shaped arms with shell and husk-carved scroll terminals on S-shaped supports, on scroll carved legs decorated with husks and acanthus joined by H-shaped stretcher, one with a paper label numbered '205466', the other with the remains of a label (2)

Provenance

With Sauny Chalom, Paris, 1963.

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Lot Essay

These splendid fauteuils are virtually identical to those from the collection of Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W.1. They are recorded in the Large Drawing Room in the pre-1927 inventory and in 1939 and were sold by the Marquess of Cholmondeley, 'Works of Art from Houghton', Christie's, London, 8 December 1994, lot 27. Interestingly, these were possibly the Louis XIV chairs lent by Sir Philip from Park Lane for the use of the President of France and Madame Lebrun during a ceremony in Westminster Hall on their state visit on 23 March 1939.

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