Sale 9614
New York
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29 - 30 March 2001
Price realised
USD 4,700
Estimate
A REGENCE WALNUT FAUTEUIL A LA REINE Circa 1715 The frame molded overall, the rectangular back and seat covered with gros and petit-point needlework depicting birds within exotic flowering foliage, flanked by downscrolled armrests with shell-carved volute handrests, the shaped seatrail centered by a shell flanked by sprouting acanthus, on cabriole legs each headed by scroll and acanthus carving with acanthus sheathed hoof feet joined by a scrolled X-stretcher
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