A PAIR OF EMPIRE BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY STOOL-COVERS en suite with the preceding lot, each rectangular close-nailed panel woven in silks with a central circular medallion on a claret ground, one depicting a palm branch and shield, the other Poseidon's palm-bound Triton within a scrolling floral garlanded border on an ivory ground, on later grey-painted and parcel-gilt X-framed stools with panelled seat-rails carved with rosette and bell-husk sprays, above channelled similarly carved X-frame supports centred by a domed stiff-leaf patera and joined by stretchers, on claw feet

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE BEAUVAIS TAPESTRY STOOL-COVERS en suite with the preceding lot, each rectangular close-nailed panel woven in silks with a central circular medallion on a claret ground, one depicting a palm branch and shield, the other Poseidon's palm-bound Triton within a scrolling floral garlanded border on an ivory ground, on later grey-painted and parcel-gilt X-framed stools with panelled seat-rails carved with rosette and bell-husk sprays, above channelled similarly carved X-frame supports centred by a domed stiff-leaf patera and joined by stretchers, on claw feet
24in. (61cm.) wide; 18in. (46cm.) deep; 16½in. (42cm.) deep (2)

來源

Sir Edward Sassoon, Bt.,
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W.1., recorded on the Balcony (Landing) in 1939

出版

G. Worsley, 'Houghton', Country Life, 4 March 1993, p.53, fig. 9, (a pair illustrated in situ in the White Drawing Room)

展覽

London, 25 Park Lane, W.1., Three French Reigns, February 21-April 5th 1933, no. 23 (a pair either these or lot 75)

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