拍品 27
27
A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS, each with rounded rectangular padded back and seat upholstered in contemporary crimson silk velvet with tasselled fringe, the scrolled channelled arms carved with bell-husks and acanthus, on scrolled husk-trailed tapering chanelled legs joined by a hipped, waved, channelled H-shaped stretcher surmounted by a berried finial above a lambrequin drape, on hatched, panelled legs and gadrooned tapering feet, re-railed in the 19th Century, each with blue chalk inscription to the seat-rail 13380

細節
A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS, each with rounded rectangular padded back and seat upholstered in contemporary crimson silk velvet with tasselled fringe, the scrolled channelled arms carved with bell-husks and acanthus, on scrolled husk-trailed tapering chanelled legs joined by a hipped, waved, channelled H-shaped stretcher surmounted by a berried finial above a lambrequin drape, on hatched, panelled legs and gadrooned tapering feet, re-railed in the 19th Century, each with blue chalk inscription to the seat-rail 13380
27¾in. (70.5cm.) wide; 46½in. (118cm.) high; 26½in. (67.5cm.) deep (2)
來源
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W.1., recorded in the Large Drawing Room in the pre-1927 inventory and in 1939
出版
展覽
London, 25 Park Lane, W.1., Three French Reigns, February 21-April 5 1933, no. 538, (Catalogue, p. 74, fig. 61)

拍品專文

A related fauteuil was sold by Millon and Robert, Saint-Ouen, 11 November 1993, lot 609.

These chairs are possibly the Louis XIV fauteuils lent by Sir Philip from Park Lane for the use of the President of France and Madame Lebrun during a ceremony in Westminster Hall on their state visit (see: James Knox's introduction p. )