THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (Lots 256-261)
AN EMPIRE GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL by Pierre-Benoît Marcion

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AN EMPIRE GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL by Pierre-Benoît Marcion

The rectangular padded back, arms and bowed seat upholstered in close-nailed blue velvet, the toprail centred by a flowerhead and lotus-buds and flanked by further flowerheads, above a channelled frame, the arm-supports and legs shaped as turned tapering torches headed by palmettes, stamped P. MARCION and with old label inscribed in black ink Mr Le Marechal Mortier Salon de jeu Rez de chaussée 3f
來源
Maréchal Mortier (1768-1835)

拍品專文

This fauteuil is likely to have formed part of a group of chairs ordered by Maréchal Mortier for one of the two houses he had purchased in Paris. Upon his death in 1835, the following inventory was drawn up for his grand salon in his residence in the rue du faubourg Saint Honoré:
376 un meuble de salon composé de trois canapés, deux bergères, douze fauteuils, douze chaises, trois X, deux tabourets de pied et un écran de cheminée, le tout de bois sculpté et doré couverts d'étoffe de soie brochée en or 4000 f
A closely related fauteuil by Marcion was delivered in 1810 to the premier salon of Napoléon at Fontainebleau. It formed part of the furniture of the chamber of Queen Marie-Amélie at the Palais des Tuileries, and is illustrated in Un Age d'Or des Arts Décoratifs 1814-1848, Paris, 1991, p. 289, no. 149