A PAIR OF IMPERIAL GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS

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£ 25 000
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21.09.2022 14:00UTC +01:00
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ID 812962
Lot 47 | A PAIR OF IMPERIAL GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
A PAIR OF IMPERIAL GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS

BY PIERRE-BENOIT MARCION, CIRCA 1812-13

The shaped cresting rail centred by twin paterae flanked by scrolling harebell fronds above a further patera issuing laurel trails terminating in palmettes, the uprights headed by rosettes, above two padded arms carved with Egyptian lotus and reeded motif on palm leaf supports, the shaped seat-rail with a conformingly-carved frieze, on turned tapering legs, upholstered with a pale blue and gold silk damask; stamped 'P.MARCION' with a label inscribed 'Palais de Monte Cavallo / Grands appartements de l’Impératrice / 3e salon / deux fauteuils de représentation en bois doré' ; another label inscribed 'Château des Tuileries. / 1829. / - N° 1751. / salon de réception de Madame la Dauphine' ; and various inventory numbers

42 1/2 in. (108 cm.) high; 28 3⁄4 in. (73 cm.) wide; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) deep





Provenance

Delivered by Marcion in 1813 for the 3rd Salon of the great apartments of Empress Marie Louise (1791-1847) at the Palace of Monte-Cavallo (now Quirinale Palace), Rome.

Inventoried in 1826, where recorded in the Palais des Tuileries, in the salon de reception of Marie-Thérèse of France, duchesse d’Angoulême (1778-1851) and daughter of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

D. Ledoux-Lebard, Les ébénistes du XIXe siècle, 1785-1889, leurs œuvres et leurs marques, Paris, 1985.

J.-P. Planchon, Marcion ébéniste de Napoléon, Saint-Rémy-en-l’Eau, 2007.



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