AN EMPIRE GILTWOOD CANAPE

Lot 331
13.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 63 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027807
Lot 331 | AN EMPIRE GILTWOOD CANAPE
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
AN EMPIRE GILTWOOD CANAPE

FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

The top rail carved with scrolling foliate motifs and palmettes surrounding laurel wreaths and classical vessels, flanked by Egyptian pilasters issuing downswept arms, each modelled as a male winged divinity with foliate lower body, the seat-rail carved with stylized palmettes and flowerheads, on tapering ball feet carved with palmettes, upholstered in crimson velvet with two gold-trimmed cushions

36 ½ in. (93 cm.) high, 78 in. (198 cm.) wide, 31 in. (79 cm.) deep





Provenance

The Collection of the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

C. de Nicolay-Mazery, Private Houses of France, Paris, 2014, p. 280.
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