A PAIR OF FRENCH GILTWOOD TABOURETS

ALMOST CERTAINLY MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF FRENCH GILTWOOD TABOURETS
ALMOST CERTAINLY MID-18TH CENTURY
Each with padded cut-velvet covered drop-in seat on a channelled and acanthus carved frame centred by a plume, on cabriole legs, re-gessoed and re-gilt, with traces of earlier gilding, later drop-in seats and consequential restorations
20 in. (51 cm.) high; 25½ in. (65 cm.) wide; 19½ in. (49.5 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

The collection of Madame Corty.
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 4 December 1980, lot 95.

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Lot Essay

A similar chair stamped by Jean-Baptiste II Tilliard is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, illustrated in Madeleine Jarry, Le Siège Français, 1973, pl. 18.

A gilding report undertaken by Catherine Hassell of University College London concludes that these stools have been regilded twice over what is left of the original water gilding.

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