A PAIR OF REGENCE GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS

THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR (Lots 4-23)

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A PAIR OF REGENCE GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
Each with arched padded rectangular back, arms and waved seat with squab-cushion covered in close-nailed trellis-quilted floral green silk with embroidered floral decoration, the outscrolled arms with fabric pockets carved with scallop-shells and strapwork, above a waved seat centred by a scallop-shell and a fan-motif and flanked by scrolling foliage, the cabriole legs headed by a scallop-shell and terminating in a foliate scroll, refreshments to gilding (2)

來源

Purchased from Kraemer & Cie, Paris, in 1956 for Ffr 400,000.

拍品專文

These 'fauteuil bergères' are closely related in form to that in carved walnut depicted in Jacques-André-Joseph-Camelot Aved's celebrated portrait of Françoise de Reims, Baronesse de Vanne. Painted in 1739 and exhibited in the salon that year, it is now in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (illustrated in D.Meyer, 'The Rothschild Room An Eighteenth-Century French Salon', Catalogue, Jerusalem, 1985, fig. 24).
A fauteuil in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris of virtually identical profile and with closely related carving is illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Meubles Français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1956, Vol.I, Pl. IV, p.116, while a further similar pair was sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 5/6 June 1978, lot 58.