Live Auction 16115The Collector: English & European Furniture, Fine Art, Ceramics & Silver
A FRENCH GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION THRONE CHAIR
Lot 46 PROPERTY FROM THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO

A FRENCH GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION THRONE CHAIR

LATE 19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE MODEL EXECUTED BY FRANÇOIS-HONORÉ-GEORGES JACOB-DESMALTER FROM A DESIGN BY PERCIER AND FONTAINE

Closed10 April 2018

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A FRENCH GILTWOOD AND GILT-COMPOSITION THRONE CHAIR
LATE 19TH CENTURY, AFTER THE MODEL EXECUTED BY FRANÇOIS-HONORÉ-GEORGES JACOB-DESMALTER FROM A DESIGN BY PERCIER AND FONTAINE
The upholstery with silvered metal thread embroidery with crowned 'N' on a crimson velvet ground, with black-painted number 3872. on the reverse of the cresting

Specialist note

The design for the present armchair relates closely to that of the fauteuil du Trône supplied by the celebrated Parisian ébéniste, François-Honoré-Georges Jacob-Desmalter (d. 1841), for the salle du Trône of Napoleon I at the Palais de Saint-Cloud in 1804 and based on designs by Charles Percier (d. 1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (d. 1853). In keeping with Napoleon's desire for the fixtures and furnishings of the salle de Trône at the Tuileries and Saint-Cloud to mirror each other exactly, Jacob-Desmalter produced an additional pair of the chairs for the former palace. However, the two fauteuils du Trône differed from one another; the Tuileries version, without the Herculean chimera monopodia, being more restrained.