A PAIR OF CONSULAT GILTWOOD TABOURETS

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Lot 1 | A PAIR OF CONSULAT GILTWOOD TABOURETS
A PAIR OF CONSULAT GILTWOOD TABOURETS

ATTRIBUTED TO JACOB FRERES, CIRCA 1800

Each modeled in curule form, raised on paw feet, upholstered in a simulated tiger pelt upholstery, each with the brand of the Château de Saint-Cloud, a label with the inscription 'BOUDOIR DE MADAME BONAPARTE' and the stenciled inventory number '13798'

28 in. (71.5 cm.) high, 31 in. (79 cm.) wide, 20 in. (51 cm.) deep





Provenance

Supplied to the Boudoir of Josephine, Madame Bonaparte at the Château de Saint-Cloud, circa 1798 (two from a set of four).

Recorded in the Boudoir of the Empress Josephine in 1807 as "No. 686 quatre tabourets en x..."

Purchased by Mrs. Alan Lerner, Buvelot, Paris, circa 1960.

Collection of Mrs. Alan Lerner; Sotheby's, New York, 24 April 2013, lot 67.



Literature

J.-P. Garric, Charles Percier, ed.: Architecture and Design in an Age of Revolutions, New York, 2016, pp. 229-30, figs. 11A.1 and 11A.3.

D. Arbus, Revelations, New York, 2003, p. 166.

G. Freeman, "The Setting is French," Town and Country, November 1962, pp. 110 and 112.
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