EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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AN EMPIRE GREY-PAINTED BEECHWOOD FAUTEUIL
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The rectangular back and bow-fronted seat covered in blue fabric, the channelled frame carved with fruiting laurel and flowerheads, the arms headed by shells and terminating in stylised acanthus scrolls, above baluster turned and leaf-wrapped supports, the rails centred by foliate wreaths flanked by stylised foliate branches, above baluster-turned and leaf-wrapped legs, branded 'FON' and with three crowned fleur-de-lys, and with blue stencilled number 'F-16179'
36¼ in. (92 cm.) high

Provenance

Château de Fontainebleau.

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Lot Essay

The present fauteuil was probably supplied to Fontainebleau circa 1804-1806 but cannot be linked firmly to either of the two makers both, Jacob-Desmalter and Marcion, worked in a very similar style and were producing exactly the same models.

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