A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GREY-PAINTED MARQUISES
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GREY-PAINTED MARQUISES

LATE 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY ALTERED IN SIZE

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GREY-PAINTED MARQUISES
LATE 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY ALTERED IN SIZE
Each with a straight ribbon-wrapped reed crestrail with circular foliate-decorated finial to each corner, with guilloche-carved arms and scrolled arm supports, centered by a flower, covered with grey and ivory-toned silk above a guilloche-carved seatrail, on petarae-headed tapering stop-fluted legs
35 in. high, 47 ½ in. wide, 25 ½ in. deep (each)
Provenance
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 13 October 1973, lot 91.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.

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