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A SUITE OF ROYAL LOUIS XVI WHITE-PAINTED SEAT FURNITURE

Lot 25
21.09.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 60 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 812975
Lot 25 | A SUITE OF ROYAL LOUIS XVI WHITE-PAINTED SEAT FURNITURE
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 100 000
A SUITE OF ROYAL LOUIS XVI WHITE-PAINTED SEAT FURNITURE

ATTRIBUTED TO GEORGES JACOB, CIRCA 1785

Including a sofa and six fauteuils, the rectangular padded back carved with a guilloche motif, issuing padded arms terminating in scrolling acanthus leaves on baluster-turned fluted columnar supports on a stop-fluted base, the guilloche-carved seat-rail above four turned tapering fluted legs with acanthus collars and headed by rosettes, on toupie feet, branded 'CHATEAU DE ST. CLOUD', 'ST. C 2183', with the inventory number of the Château de Saint-Cloud under the Restauration; '1048' or '1948' (), inventory number crossed out; '8704'(), inventory number; '12404' (), inventory number crossed out; '33819', inventory number; 'F 3883', inventory number of the Château de Fontainebleau; two fauteuils without inventory numbers and possibly of later date

Sofa: 39 in. (100 cm.) high; 79 1/2 in. (202 cm.) wide; 27 1/2 in. (70 cm.) deep

Fauteuils: 37 in. (94 cm.) high; 24 1/2 in. (62.5 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) deep





Provenance

Inventoried in the 1st salon of the Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise de Bourbon, Duchesse de Berry's (1798-1870) apartment at the Château de Saint-Cloud in 1824.

Inventoried in the 1st salon of Monseigneur le Dauphin, Duc d'Angoulême's (1775-1844) apartment at the Château de Saint-Cloud in 1828.

Transferred Château de Fontainebleau in 1855.

Sold by the French Domaines in 1885.

Private Collection.





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Applied technique:Painted
Medium:Beechwood, Wood
Historical era:Period of Louis XVI
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps, Armchairs and chairs, Armchairs
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