AN EMPIRE BRONZED AND MAHOGANY LIT-EN-BATEAU

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AN EMPIRE BRONZED AND MAHOGANY LIT-EN-BATEAU

The outscrolled ends with sphinx supports and scrolling foliage and flowers, the rails on three sides with flowerhead-filled roundels, on lion paw legs and a rectangular plinth with wooden castors, one castor lacking, with box spring and mattress, one rail inscribed in red chalk M de Seran, the underside of the base inscribed Mr. Serans, probably German
97½in. (248cm.) wide; 44in. (112cm.) high; 58¼in. (148cm.) deep

拍品專文

Designed in the antique/Egyptian manner popularised by C. Percier and P.F.L. Fontaine's Receuil de Décorations Interieures, 1801, this plinth-supported couch-bed with sphinx-paw feet and Grecian-scrolled ends guarded by sphinx with arabesque-scrolled tails, relates to a pattern published in Sammlung von Zeichnungen der neuesten Londoner und Pariser Meubles als Muster für Tischler, Leipzig, 1804