A PAIR OF LOUIS-PHILIPPE MAHOGANY BILLIARD BENCHES
A PAIR OF LOUIS-PHILIPPE MAHOGANY BILLIARD BENCHES

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A PAIR OF LOUIS-PHILIPPE MAHOGANY BILLIARD BENCHES
Each with tripartite pierced x-shaped splat back centred by a patera and with a moulded tablet toprail, the scrolled arms and close-nailed leather seat above ring-turned baluster legs surmounted by anthemion and joined by a stretcher with hinged round-cornered footrest
89 in. (228 cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
Schloss Heimhausen, Bavaria, Germany.

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First recorded in the 14th Century, Schloss Heimhausen was the residence of the Chancellor of Landshut, Dr. Wolfgang Viespeck, who was elevated to the Reichsadel by Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria. The castle was remodelled as a pleasure pavillion in the style of an Italian Villa by Giovanni Antonio Viscardi between 1689 and 1694. It was further extended in 1747/48 when Count Karl Ferdinand Maria commissioned Franois Cuvills the elder to supply the designs.

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