Lot 144
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A SET OF SIX NORTH ITALIAN EMPIRE WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS, each with scrolled panelled tablet toprail carved in relief with a pair of confronting sphinxes supporting ears of corn above downswept arms supported by scrolled swans, the padded back and seat variously upholstered, four covered in blue-striped silk and two in yellow cotton, the panelled seat-rails carved with laurel-trails, on foliate-headed channelled tapering legs and claw feet (6)

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A SET OF SIX NORTH ITALIAN EMPIRE WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS, each with scrolled panelled tablet toprail carved in relief with a pair of confronting sphinxes supporting ears of corn above downswept arms supported by scrolled swans, the padded back and seat variously upholstered, four covered in blue-striped silk and two in yellow cotton, the panelled seat-rails carved with laurel-trails, on foliate-headed channelled tapering legs and claw feet (6)

Lot Essay

A swan-armed chair pattern in the manner of Charles Percier was engraved in P.A.L. de La Mesangere's, Collection de Meubles et Objets de Gout, 1803, and was later adapted for a chair of related character published in Sammlung von Zeichnungen der neuesten Londner und Pariser Meubles als Muster fur Tischler, Leipzig, 1814, fig. 4
Similar chairs were supplied for the boudoir of the Empress Josephine at the Palace of Saint Cloud by Jacob Desmalter (see D. Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ebenèstes du XIX Siècle, Paris, 1957, p. 207 and p. 335)

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