Live Auction 2105European Furniture, Works of Art, and Tapestries: Including Jansen: The Past Reimagined
A PAIR OF FRENCH CREAM-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT X-FRAME STOOLS
Lot 149

A PAIR OF FRENCH CREAM-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT X-FRAME STOOLS

ATTRIBUTED TO MAISON JANSEN, 20TH CENTURY

Closed7 October 2008

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USD 15,000

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A PAIR OF FRENCH CREAM-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT X-FRAME STOOLS
ATTRIBUTED TO MAISON JANSEN, 20TH CENTURY
Of Louis XVI style, with a pale green suede loose seat cushion with red tassles to the corners, the painted decoration refreshed and the caning possibly later (2)

[by repute] The Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

Specialist note

An identical x-frame stool, in an image from the archives of James A. Abbott, is reproduced in his Jansen Furniture. And while the Windsor provenance is by repute only, the richly detailed carving and high-style neoclassical design would have appealed to the taste of the Duke and Duchess and was evident throughout their houses in Paris and Antibes.