STAMPED ROSSI FILS, CIRCA 1865

Traditionally, this design for a pouf à cordes has been given to Nicolas Fournier for the closely related one in the château de Compiégnie (illustrated in H. Hayward, World Furniture, London, 1965, p. 241, plate 928 and in J-M Moulin, 'The furnishing of the Palace of Compiègne during the Second Empire', The Connoisseur, December 1978, p. 253). Featured in the Salon de Musique it also appears to be in a photograph taken after 1865 of the same room (op. cit, p. 254). A stool of the same design was sold by the Earl of Rosebery from the collection of Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild, Mentmore, Sotheby's house sale, 18 May 1977, lot 10. Another one sold anonymously, Christie's London, 16 May 1996, lot 267