Live Auction 8011The Gothick Pavilion - A Private Collection from Belgravia
A LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL
Lot 374

A LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL

CIRCA 1700

Closed26 January 2011

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GBP 9,375

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A LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL
CIRCA 1700
The rectangular back and seat upholstered with silver-threaded dark blue tasselled silk-velvet, the arms carved with acanthus and strapwork, on scrolled legs joined by an x-stretcher centred by an urn finial, very minor variations in the carving of one arm, one rail inscribed in ink '3', later blocks
46½ in. (118 cm.) high; 26 in. (66 cm.) wide

Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, London W1, recorded in the Large Drawing Room in the 1939 inventory.
Thence by descent through his sister Sybil, Marchioness of Chomondeley to Houghton Hall, Norfolk.
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 13 June 2002, lot 217.

Specialist note

This chair - together with the canapé (lot 116) - originally formed part of an immensely grand suite of 'parade' seat-furniture. A pair of fauteuils en suite was sold by the Dowager Marchioness of Cholmondeley, CBE, 12 Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8, Christie's house sale, 22 October 1979, lot 142, whilst a further pair, identically covered in 18th century silk-velvet with passementerie d'argent, was sold from the collection of Madame Pol-Roger, Sotheby's Monaco, 26-27 May 1980, lot 621.