Lot 63
63
A FRENCH PARCEL-GILT AND WHITE-PAINTED X-FRAMED STOOL upholstered in crimson velvet, the scrolled arm terminals with floral paterae and panelled sides centred by a grotesque mask, the underside carved with laurel leaves, the X-frame with central lion-mask, downswept legs and floral scrolled feet with acanthus-carved baluster stretcher, first quarter 19th Century, regilded

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A FRENCH PARCEL-GILT AND WHITE-PAINTED X-FRAMED STOOL upholstered in crimson velvet, the scrolled arm terminals with floral paterae and panelled sides centred by a grotesque mask, the underside carved with laurel leaves, the X-frame with central lion-mask, downswept legs and floral scrolled feet with acanthus-carved baluster stretcher, first quarter 19th Century, regilded
26½in. (67.5cm.) wide; 21¼in. (54cm.) high

Lot Essay

Its laurel-carved underside and X-frame form relate to a stool supplied to Napoleon's widow, Maria Luisa of Austria (now in the Pinacoteca Nazionale, Parma (see: A. Gonzales-Palacios, Il Mobile nei Secoli, Milan, 1969, vol. 3, p. 66, fig. 95)

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