A GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL of Régence style, the shaped rectangular padded back and seat covered in ivory watered-silk with foliate appliqué within an entwined golden thread foliate border, the entrelac carved frame surmounted by a central Apollo mask with acanthus sprays and espagnolette masks to the angles, the scrolled rockwork and acanthus carved arms with further mask terminals, above a shaped seat-rail with central female mask between confronting C-scrolls and on hybrid owl and eagle-headed cabriole legs and scroll feet

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A GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL of Régence style, the shaped rectangular padded back and seat covered in ivory watered-silk with foliate appliqué within an entwined golden thread foliate border, the entrelac carved frame surmounted by a central Apollo mask with acanthus sprays and espagnolette masks to the angles, the scrolled rockwork and acanthus carved arms with further mask terminals, above a shaped seat-rail with central female mask between confronting C-scrolls and on hybrid owl and eagle-headed cabriole legs and scroll feet

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A pair of fauteuils en suite were sold anonymously, Sotheby's Monaco, 5-6 June 1978, lot 39

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