Lot Essay
A closely related pouf à cordes by Fournier is in the château de Compiègne and illustrated in H. Hayward, World Furniture, London, 1965, p. 241, plate 928. Featured in the Salon de Musique it also appears to be in a photograph taken after 1865 of the same room (J.-M., op.cit., p.254). A stool of the same design was sold by the Earl of Rosebery from the collection of Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, Mentmore, Buckinghamshire, Sotheby's house sale, 18 May 1977, lot 10, while a further model was sold anonymously in these Rooms, 14 December 1995, lot 279.