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A PAIR OF ROYAL LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
BY GEORGES JACOB CIRCA 1785
E‌ach with slightly curved rectangular padded back with a pearl-chanelled border and decorated with a stiffleaf motif on fluted uprights, the arms terminating in scrolling acanthus leaves on spreading stop-fluted and acanthus-wrapped supports on fluted bases, the shaped seatrail decorated with pearl and foliate motifs on tapering stop-fluted legs with acanthus collars headed by rosettes, on toupie feet, the padded back and seat cushion upholstered in olive green velvet, one fauteuil with remnants of Louis XVI garde-meuble label 'faut.../ salo', two labels printed 'PALAIS IMPERIAL DES TUILERIES / G. M. / 2e SALON', one of which is inscribed '6 FAUTEUILS BOIS DORE / 6 FAUTEUILS ACAJOU / 12 CHAISES' ; stamped: 'PLS DES TUILERIES'; with the Restauration brand with three fleurs-de-lys within an oval; the other fauteuil stencilled 16783 by the Garde-Meuble royal under the Restauration period, with traces of a label inscribed '…Fauteuils et Salon..', refreshments to the gilding
3‌6 in. (93 cm.) high; 27 in. (69 cm.) wide; 25 in. (63 cm.) deep
Provenance
Possibly Charles-Philippe de France (1757-1836), comte d'Artois.
‌General Géraud-Christophe-Michel Duroc (1772-1813), Grand Maréchal du Palais de S.M. l’Empereur Napoléon 1er and Duke of Frioul, inventoried in 1807 in his 'second salon' in the Tuileries Palace.
‌Collection of Hector Lefuel (1810-1880), Paris and thence by descent.
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