Lot 141
141
A NORTH EUROPEAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT BERGERE with deeply curved padded back and seat covered in pale bee-patterned silk, the toprail with a putto flanked by cornucopiae, the scroll arms with shell terminals above winged heads and on square tapering legs and paw feet, remounted and re-gilt, lacking mount on reverse, restorations, front seat-rail replaced, mid-19th Century

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A NORTH EUROPEAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND PARCEL-GILT BERGERE with deeply curved padded back and seat covered in pale bee-patterned silk, the toprail with a putto flanked by cornucopiae, the scroll arms with shell terminals above winged heads and on square tapering legs and paw feet, remounted and re-gilt, lacking mount on reverse, restorations, front seat-rail replaced, mid-19th Century

Lot Essay

A very similar empire bergère was sold in these Rooms 29 November, 1990, lot 130.

The shape and decoration of this chair derives from two designs illustrated in C. Percier and P.F.L. Fontaine, Recueil des Décorations Intérieures, Paris, 1812. Plate XV shows a chair with similarly decorated and shaped back made by Jacob Frères for the bedroom of 'Citizen V'. in Paris. Likewise the design of the base is similar to that of a chair illustrated in plate LX.

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