A PAIR OF BALTIC PARCEL-GILT AND WHITE-PAINTED SOFAS

SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF BALTIC PARCEL-GILT AND WHITE-PAINTED SOFAS
Second quarter 19th Century
Each with a triple oval panelled toprail with berried laurel flanking paterae, above a padded back covered in red and green striped foliage material, above a padded seat covered in red foliage material, flanked by down-scrolled arms on scrolled supports, the apron interspersed with flowerheads, on ring-turned tapering legs, redecorated
79 in. (202 cm.) wide (2)

Lot Essay

These settees, embellished with laurel and flowered ribbon-bands, are conceived in the robust antique manner promoted by C. Percier and P. Fontaine's Recueil de Dcorations Intrieures, of 1801; while their tablet crestings recall boss-nailed Roman drapery. Their triumphal ornament features for instance on a bed supplied for Napoleon, in 1808 by F. H. G. Jacob-Desmalter (D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Franais du XIX Sicle, Paris, 1989, p. 277).

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