A DIRECTOIRE WHITE-PAINTED MAHOGANY FAUTEUIL, the padded square back and seat covered in floral material, the back-rail carved with flower-filled guilloche, the channelled arms on winged sphinx supports, the seat-rail carved with anthemia on turned tapering legs headed by paterae and carved with lambrequins below a beaded moulding, on paw feet with later turned blocks, the back legs carved with mille raies and with later tips, previously separately gilt and bronzed, the back with brass plate engraved ST. GEORGE'S CHAPTER NO. 140

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A DIRECTOIRE WHITE-PAINTED MAHOGANY FAUTEUIL, the padded square back and seat covered in floral material, the back-rail carved with flower-filled guilloche, the channelled arms on winged sphinx supports, the seat-rail carved with anthemia on turned tapering legs headed by paterae and carved with lambrequins below a beaded moulding, on paw feet with later turned blocks, the back legs carved with mille raies and with later tips, previously separately gilt and bronzed, the back with brass plate engraved ST. GEORGE'S CHAPTER NO. 140

Provenance

Anonymous sale in these Rooms 21 December 1977, lot 101, when the brass plate was incorrectly stated to be engraved No. 410

Lot Essay

A fauteuil in the Mobilier National, part of a set probably made for the French Royal Family almost at the end of the Monarchy, and very possibly by Georges Jacob, is illustrated G. Janneau, Les Sièges, Paris, 1967, p.165., fig. 310. It too combines Greek and Etruscan ornament and shares the square guilloche-filled back, flat arms, sphinx supports and turned legs of this lot.

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