A PAIR OF EARLY LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS

CIRCA 1735

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A PAIR OF EARLY LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
Circa 1735
Each upholstered in close-nailed 18th Century floral Beauvais tapestry, the arched backs with an acanthus-wrapped reeded frame with upholstered arms and strapwork and shell terminals on acanthus supports with serpentine seats, shell-centered acanthus carved rail with cabriole legs and scrolled feet, one branded TH and H, and with an oval enclosing a crown above three fleurs-de-lys, the other bearing a white paper label stencilled 2119, regilt (2)

來源

Probably the Condé family.
Probably at the Palais Bourbon, Paris by the 1780s and subsequently moved to the Palais des Tuileries, circa 1795.

拍品專文

The marque au feu of three fleurs-de-lys in an inverted triangle beneath a closed crown within an oval was used from the 1780s at the Palais Bourbon, the contents of which were sold at public auction in 1795. Some of these pieces were marked for export in the hope of getting a higher price, in the same way that the paintings from the collection of the duc d'Aumont were sold in London. A number of pieces bearing this mark have surfaced, and these include a suite of Louis XVI giltwood seat-furniture, circa 1780, sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 24 September 1999, lots 102-103, some also marked in ink EN (Elysée-Napoléon) and with a marque au feu ELB (Elysée-Bourbon).
One of these fauteuils also bears the marque au feu TH for the Palais des Tuileries, and an as yet undisciphered H brand. Pieces so marked were originally owned by the Condé family.