拍品 102
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AN EMPIRE BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY FAUTEUIL
AN EMPIRE BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY FAUTEUIL

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AN EMPIRE BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY FAUTEUIL
The panelled toprail depicting two winged cherubs flanking a lyre issuing scrolling foliage above a close-nailed padded back and seat covered in red leather flanked by arms terminating in lion heads and on curved supports above a bowed seat-rail, on square tapering legs terminating in paw feet, previously with castors, the back seat-rail stamped 'INV' in a canted rectangular box

拍品专文

This chair pattern, with scrolled arms terminating in 'Egyptian' leopardess' heads and hermed legs terminating in paw feet, relates to a chair that is likely to have been commissioned in 1802 for Cardinal Fesch (d. 1839), uncle of Napoleon I, at the time he was appointed archevêque de Lyon (now in the Bibliothèque Municipal, Lyon, illustrated in L. de Groër, Les Arts décoratifs de 1790 à 1850, Fribourg, 1985, p. 133, fig. 242). A set of six related ram's headed armchairs attributed to Jacob were sold anonymously at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 April 1990.