LATE 19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE MODEL EXECUTED BY FRANÇOIS-HONORÉ-GEORGES JACOB-DESMALTER FROM A DESIGN BY PERCIER AND FONTAINE

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A FRENCH GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION THRONE CHAIR
LATE 19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE MODEL EXECUTED BY FRANÇOIS-HONORÉ-GEORGES JACOB-DESMALTER FROM A DESIGN BY PERCIER AND FONTAINE
The upholstery with silvered metal thread embroidery with crowned 'N' on a crimson velvet ground, with black-painted number 3872. on the reverse of the cresting

Exhibited

California Midwinter International Exposition, 1894.

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Lot Essay

The design for the present armchair relates closely to that of the fauteuil du Trône supplied by the celebrated Parisian ébéniste, François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter (d. 1841), for the salle du Trône of Napoleon I at the Palais de Saint-Cloud in 1804 and based on designs by Charles Percier (d. 1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (d. 1853). In keeping with Napoleon's desire for the fixtures and furnishings of the salle de Trône at the Tuileries and Saint-Cloud to mirror each other exactly, Jacob-Desmalter produced an additional pair of the chairs for the former palace. However, the two fauteuils du Trône differed from one another; the Tuileries version, without the Herculean chimera monopodia, being more restrained.

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