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A PAIR OF FRENCH OR ITALIAN EMPIRE CREAM DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS
Each padded back with a scroll toprail, on tapered uprights carved with stylised anthemion and foliate tendrils, the padded arms with ball terminals, flanking a padded bowed seat, on inverted lotus turned tapered legs, one with legs re-toed
*5,000-7,000 (2)
Each padded back with a scroll toprail, on tapered uprights carved with stylised anthemion and foliate tendrils, the padded arms with ball terminals, flanking a padded bowed seat, on inverted lotus turned tapered legs, one with legs re-toed
*5,000-7,000 (2)
Further details
The pattern for these armchairs, with their palm-wrapped columnar supports and Grecian-scrolled backs enriched at the sides with palm-flowered arabesques, evolved from the antique style promoted by C.Percier and P.Fontaine's Receuil de Decoration Interieures, 1801, The sphere-capped arm also featured arm also featured with volute-scrolled backs on the chair-patterns executed by Charles Percier for the celebrated ebeniste Georges Jacob (d.1814) (see D. Ledoux-Lebard Le Mobilier Francais du XIX Siecle, Paris, 1984, p.283