Lot Essay
The arched-back bergères with flowered tablets and fluted rails in the 'antique' manner, have richly spiralled-feet, recalling Jupiter's thunderbolt, and relate to those of a chair bearing the brand of the menuisier Sulpice Brizard (maître in 1762) (see: Gismondi Catalogue, Paris, 1988, p. 77).
They are likely to have formed part of the fine collection of French furniture introduced to Floors Castle, Scotland, following the marriage in 1903 of Henry Innes-Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe (d. 1932) to Mary Goelet. Much of the collection had furnished her father Ogden Goelet's mansion on Long Island, New York
The legs' form also corresponds to the columnar-supports of a chimneypiece introduced to the exotic Turkish-style apartments of Marie Antoinette at Fontainebleau in 1777 (see: H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.II, p. 569)
They are likely to have formed part of the fine collection of French furniture introduced to Floors Castle, Scotland, following the marriage in 1903 of Henry Innes-Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe (d. 1932) to Mary Goelet. Much of the collection had furnished her father Ogden Goelet's mansion on Long Island, New York
The legs' form also corresponds to the columnar-supports of a chimneypiece introduced to the exotic Turkish-style apartments of Marie Antoinette at Fontainebleau in 1777 (see: H. Ottomeyer, P. Pröschel et al., Vergoldete Bronzen, Munich, 1986, vol.II, p. 569)