This serpentined folding-stool (ployant) pattern, with acanthus-wrapped legs tied by an 'Apollo' sunflower and terminating in orbs guarded by heraldic 'Rohan' lion-paws, was designed around 1740 in the Louis XV picturesque manner for the Strasbourg Palace state apartment of Cardinal Armand-Gaston de Rohan-Soubise, Grand Almoner of France. Five of the suite of twenty-four stools are now displayed at the Palace (J.D. Ludmann, 'Interior Decoration and Furnishings; The Palais des Rohan', Apollo, August, 1971, p. 114, fig. 13)