Live Auction 2545500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe Including Oriental Carpets
A SET OF SIX LOUIS XVI GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUILS
Lot 187 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. AND MRS. FRANCIS FOWLER,
WASHINGTON, D.C.

A SET OF SIX LOUIS XVI GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUILS

CIRCA 1775

Closed19 April 2012

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A SET OF SIX LOUIS XVI GREY-PAINTED FAUTEUILS
CIRCA 1775
En suite with the previous lot, each with oval back and fluted tapering legs, upholstered in natural linen, inscribed 8611 and M-40 in black marker and 6871 in pencil to underside (6)

Almost certainly supplied to Anthony Morris Storer (d. 1799), Purley Park, Berkshire.
By descent to his nephew, Anthony Gilbert Storer (d. 1818).
To his son, Anthony Morris Storer (d. 1902).
To his only daughter, Leila Minna Gertrude Storer, who married George Frederick Downing in 1889.
To their daughter, Ivy Leila Downing Fullerton.
Mrs. Downing Fullerton, Purley Park, Reading; sold Christie's, London, 10 December 1909, lot 95 (the entire suite, £5,250 to Lewis and Simmons, London).
With Lewis and Simmons, London.
Acquired from Dalva Brothers, Inc., New York, 25 April 1972.