VIENNA, MID-18TH CENTURY

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AN AUSTRIAN GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL
VIENNA, MID-18TH CENTURY
With channelled frame, the padded back, armrests and removable seat covered in red-striped material, the back, arms and seatrail carved with foliage, on cabriole legs and scrolled feet

Provenance

Possibly Palais Paar, Vienna.

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Lot Essay

An almost identical pair of fauteuils was displayed by Nicolas and Alexis Kugel at TEFAF, Maastricht, March 2005, documented as coming from Palais Paar, Vienna. The magnificent palace of the Princes Paar was built around 1630 and remodelled by Isidor Canevale (active 1760-1780) and Johann Georg Leithner (active 1757-1785) between 1765 and 1772, when the present fauteuil was possibly commissioned. The so-called Paar Room now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, was acquired by Mr and Mrs. Charles Wrightman in 1963 and is now part of the elaborate suite of 18th Century period rooms, which are filled with the outstanding pieces of French furniture donated by the Wrightmans and other donors (A. Peck et.al., Period Rooms in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1996, pp. 87-95).

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