CIRCA 1820-40, AFTER A DESIGN BY PERCIER AND FONTAINE

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A PAIR OF NORTH EUROPEAN EMPIRE PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY BERGERES
CIRCA 1820-40, AFTER A DESIGN BY PERCIER AND FONTAINE
Each with anthemion carved toprail above padded arms and a squab-cushion, the slender arms issuing from a foliate band above imbricated scrolls resting on the heads of hippocamps which form the termini of a broad frieze to the lower edge of the seat carved with bold anthemions and further hippocamps on leaf-carved and gadrooned sabre legs, partially re-decorated, the polished timbers previously but probably not originally decorated, covered in salmon-coloured hide, indistinct blue crayon inscriptions to the underside of both chairs and various further indistinct pencil inscriptions to one
41¾ in. (106 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The grand neoclassical design of these bergères is derived from a design published by the acclaimed early 19th century French architect-designers Charles Percier, (1764-1838) and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine (1762-1853) in the 1812 edition of their influential work Recueil des Décorations Intérieures.
A related design for a bergère is illustrated in Georg Himmelheber, Deusche Mobelvorlagen 1800-1900, P. 395, ill.2242, and a further pair of Biedermeier examples, almost certainly based on the sale Percier and Fontaine design, were sold anonymously, Sotheby's New York, 19 May 2006, lot 173.

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