Live Auction 9749Christie's Interiors
A PAIR OF EMPIRE CREAM-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS
Lot 150

A PAIR OF EMPIRE CREAM-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS

EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Closed10 December 2013

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GBP 3,250

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A PAIR OF EMPIRE CREAM-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Each with a padded back and arms terminating in carved masks above a shaped seat, on ring-turned legs headed by paterae, re-upholstered and re-decorated

Specialist note

A closely related fauteuil, supplied to Cardinal Fesch, Napoléon I's uncle, is illustrated in Léon de Groér, Les Arts Décoratifs de 1790 à 1850, Fribourg, 1985, p. 132, fig. 242.