ID 1027686
Lot 335 | A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS A CHASSIS
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 80 000
MID-18TH CENTURY
Each with shaped top rail carved with scrolling foliate motifs and centered by a rocaille cartouche surrounding a cabochon, the channeled back with button-carved border and the lower rail centered by a flowerhead, issuing arms with scroll terminals on downswept supports carved with branches, the seat-rail conformingly carved, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus leaves and terminating in shell feet, upholstered in red and cream silk damask, each with label 'COPENHAGUE 1935 L'ART FRANCAIS AU XVIIIE SIECLE/ PRETEUR: / M. Charles MICHEL/ fauteuil époque Louis XV 5.4.8.'
39 in. (100 cm.) high, 29 in. (74 cm.) wide, 26 in. (66 cm.) deep
Provenance
Monsieur Charles Michel in 1935.
The Collection of the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
C. Frégnac, Belles demeures de Paris 16e-19e siècle, 1977, p. 255.
C. de Nicolay-Mazery, Visites privées, hôtels particuliers de Paris, Paris,1999, p. 30.
C. de Nicolay-Mazery, Private Houses of France, Paris, 2014, p. 280.
Exhibited
L'Art français au XVIII siècle, Charlottenborg Palace, Copenhagen, 25 August-6 October 1935, cat. no. 548.
| Medium: | Beechwood, Giltwood, Silk, Textile |
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| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Armchairs and chairs, Armchairs |
| Medium: | Beechwood, Giltwood, Silk, Textile |
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| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Armchairs and chairs, Armchairs |
| Address of auction |
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