Live Auction 21109The Collection of Ann & Gordon Getty: Wheatland
A PAIR OF FRENCH GILTWOOD ROPE-TWIST STOOLS
Lot 225

A PAIR OF FRENCH GILTWOOD ROPE-TWIST STOOLS

AFTER THE MODEL BY A.M.E FOURNIER, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

Closed19 October 2023

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A PAIR OF FRENCH GILTWOOD ROPE-TWIST STOOLS
AFTER THE MODEL BY A.M.E FOURNIER, THIRD QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
Of circular form, covered in pale celadon silk, on casters, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
18 in. (45 cm.) high, 23 ½ in. (60 cm.) diameter

Supplied by Parish-Hadley, New York, to Ann and Gordon Getty in 1975.

Specialist note

The model for this stool was created by the upholsterer A.M.E. Fournier who worked in the boulevard Beaumarchais, Paris, from 1850 onwards. Its feet, which are in the form of simulated tassels, are significant in the context of the Second Empire in France (1852-1870), when the importance of upholstery and textiles reached its apogee in interior decorating. A pouf à cordes by Fournier is in the Château de Compiègne and is illustrated in H. Hayward, World Furniture, London, 1965, p. 241, pl. 928.