Lot 62
62
AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY DAY BED of Empire style, the rectangular padded back, bolster and ends covered in yellow and white-striped florally patterned material, the ends scrolled and with swan's-heads, the frieze with griffin mounts and on chimera legs and paw feet, late 19th Century

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY DAY BED of Empire style, the rectangular padded back, bolster and ends covered in yellow and white-striped florally patterned material, the ends scrolled and with swan's-heads, the frieze with griffin mounts and on chimera legs and paw feet, late 19th Century
69in. (179.5cm.) wide

Lot Essay

The Grecian swan-head and 'Roman' couch-form and griffin monopodiae derive from Percier and Fontaine's Receuil de Décorations Intérieures, 1801 and typify the Second Empire style introduced during the reign of Napoleon III (1852-1870).

An identical couch is illustrated G. Wannenes, Mobili di Francia, Milan, 1987, fig. 143

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