Details
A PAIR OF EARLY LOUIS XV GREY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT CANAPES, each with uble e-arched channelled frame centred by an entwined foliate spray, the padded back, arms and drop-in seat upholstered in ivory silk satin applied wiht finely worked coloured silks and chenille and couched silver metal-threads depicting gourds, pomegranates, pineapples, butterflies, bullrushes, ho-ho birds, dragons and mythological beasts reapplied on later ivory silk ground, above a waved channelled seat-rail and on rosette-headed channelled cabriole legs, traces of earlier green and gilded decoration
59in. (150cm.) wide; 30¾in. (78cm.) high; 30in. (76.5cm.) deep (2)
59in. (150cm.) wide; 30¾in. (78cm.) high; 30in. (76.5cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W.1., recorded in the Boudoir in 1939
Literature
G. Worsley, 'Houghton', Country Life, 4 March 1993, p.53, fig. 9 (illustrated in situ in the White Drawing Room)