A SUITE OF TWELVE TRANSITION GILTWOOD AND CREAM-PAINTED ARMCHAIRS AND A SETTEE, the armchairs each with oval channelled back centring on carved acanthus above scrolled channelled arms with acanthus carved bases, padded back, arms and seat upholstered in Aubusson tapestry woven in wools and silks with various animals, the borders woven with festoons of flowers, flower-sprays and scrolling foliage, the channelled apron centring on an acanthus carving, on turned tapering stop-fluted legs headed by paterae, the settee with similar frame and upholstery, the back depicting birds of prey, the seat a stag and hounds, five fauteuils stamped J.F.M. LANGON, nine fauteuils and the settee labelled TENTOONSTELLING VAN OUDE KUNST RIJKSMUSEUM 1929
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A SUITE OF TWELVE TRANSITION GILTWOOD AND CREAM-PAINTED ARMCHAIRS AND A SETTEE, the armchairs each with oval channelled back centring on carved acanthus above scrolled channelled arms with acanthus carved bases, padded back, arms and seat upholstered in Aubusson tapestry woven in wools and silks with various animals, the borders woven with festoons of flowers, flower-sprays and scrolling foliage, the channelled apron centring on an acanthus carving, on turned tapering stop-fluted legs headed by paterae, the settee with similar frame and upholstery, the back depicting birds of prey, the seat a stag and hounds, five fauteuils stamped J.F.M. LANGON, nine fauteuils and the settee labelled TENTOONSTELLING VAN OUDE KUNST RIJKSMUSEUM 1929
the settee 196.5 cm wide (13)
Provenance
N.V. Hartog Stibbe, Amsterdam
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst door de Vereeniging van Handelaren in Oude Kunst in Nederland, 1929 (Catalogue No. 830 and ill)
Lot Essay
Jean-François-Marcoul Langon maître 24 May 1769
See colour illustration and front cover
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