Lot Essay
These Grecian-scrolled armchairs, supported by chimerical winged-lion monopodia, relate to a Grecian-black chair with Apollo's griffin monopodia bearing the stamp of the menuisier Jean-Baptiste-Bernard Demay (d.1848), which is now at the château de Malmaison, (illustrated in L. de Groër, Les Arts Décoratifs de 1790 à 1850, Fribourg, 1985, fig.249).