FRENCH CLASSICISM: SELECTIONS FROM THE PRIVATE COLLECTION OF MICHAEL SIMON (LOTS 201-234)

A FRENCH GREY-PAINTED DOG HOUSE (NICHE EN TABOURET)

SUPPLIED BY FREDERICK P. VICTORIA, 20TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH GREY-PAINTED DOG HOUSE (NICHE EN TABOURET)
SUPPLIED BY FREDERICK P. VICTORIA, 20TH CENTURY
Of Louis XVI style, with molded frame and cabriole uprights, covered in grey gilt tooled leather with gilded nailheads, with slate blue silk interior, inscribed with black ink number R 1051 to underside
15 in. (38 cm.) high, 22½ in. (57 cm.) wide, 17 in. (43 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

A pair of dog kennels from the Louis XV period, also intended for dual use as tabourets, is in the Wrightsman Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, New York, 1966, vol.I, cat. 68, pp. 98-9), while the inventory of Madame de Pompadour's bedchamber in the Château de Saint-Hubert in 1763 listed 'Une niche en tabouret, pour 2 chiens'.

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