A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BERGÈRES

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A PAIR OF NAPOLEON III ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BERGÈRES
THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Each with rectangular padded back, sides and bowed seat upholstered in cerulian blue cut velvet embroidered in metallic thread, the back and seat centrally embroidered with a crowned 'N' within ribbon-tied laurel, the back flanked by colonnettes with ball finials mounted with stars, the panelled sides mounted with anthemion on tensed animal legs headed by Herculean terms within the Nemean lion's pelt above a panelled bowed seat rail fitted with a mask issuing laurel, on casters inscribed TOLER-43½in. (111cm.) high, 32½in. (82.5cm.) wide, 30in. (76.5cm.) deep (2)