A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD TABOURETS

CIRCA 1700

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD TABOURETS
CIRCA 1700
Each padded seat with loose dark-blue tasselled silk-velvet and gold thread cover, with channelled scrolling legs and waved H-stretcher, later blocks, the upholstery re-made to copy the original and probably re-using the original gilt thread
16 in. (40.5 cm.) high; 20½ in. (52 cm.) wide; 16½ (42 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, London W1, recorded in the Large Drawing Room in the pre-1927 and 1939 inventories.
By descent to his sister Sybil, Marchioness of Cholmondeley, Houghton Hall, Norfolk.
Thence by descent to the Marquess of Cholmondeley, sold Works of Art from Houghton, Christie's London, 8 December 1994, lot 26.

Exhibited

London, 25 Park Lane, W.1., Three French Reigns, February 21 - 5 April 5 1933, no. 522 (Catalogue, p. 72, fig. 61, one only).

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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 impèrial in 1856 and exhibited in the l'appartement du Pape, have closely related stretchers, which raises the possibility of a non-French origin for the whole group.

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