Live Auction 5986Christie's Interiors
A SET OF TEN WHITE PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS
Lot 469

A SET OF TEN WHITE PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS

OF LOUIS XV STYLE, SECOND HALF 20TH CENTURY

Closed7 September 2010

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GBP 3,250

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A SET OF TEN WHITE PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS
OF LOUIS XV STYLE, SECOND HALF 20TH CENTURY
Each with cartouche-shaped back and open arms on cabriole legs (10)

The Property of Anthony Marreco removed from Port Hall, Co. Donegal; Christie's, London, 16 May 1985, lot 66.

Specialist note

These chairs are evocative of the style created by the notable 'lady' decorator, Syrie Maugham (d.1955), in the late 1920s and 1930s. She worked in London and New York, and decorated her own King's Road home in 1929 in a light and airy manner, furnished with comfortable sofas and French fashioned chairs that were upholstered in whites and creams (illustrated A. and A. Gore, The History of English Interiors, Oxford, 1991, p.175).