ID 1027802
Lot 414 | A PAIR OF FRENCH GREY-PAINTED STOOLS
Estimate value
$ 8 000 – 12 000
19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE SENE
In the Louis XVI style and after the model made for Marie Antoinette’s Salon des Jeux de la Reine at both Fontainbleau and Compiègne, each rectangular padded seat covered in red and white silk damask on curule-form stop-fluted supports centred by a rosette within a rope-twist border, on legs carved with an ivy-leaf motif joined by beaded stretchers centred by a ribbon-tied laurel wreath, above panels carved with paterae on lion-paw feet, each with a spurious stamp 'G. IACOB' and stamped with a double 'L' cypher beneath a crown, one with label from Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York
19 in. (48.5 cm.) high, 23 in. (58 cm.) wide, 17 ½ in. (45 cm.) deep
Provenance
Acquired from Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York.
The Collection of the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
| Medium: | Beechwood, Wood |
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| Historical era: | Period of Louis XVI |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Armchairs and chairs, Chairs |
| Medium: | Beechwood, Wood |
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| Historical era: | Period of Louis XVI |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Armchairs and chairs, Chairs |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 20 Rockefeller Plaza 10020 New York USA | ||||||||||||||
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