拍品 86
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A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XIV WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS
A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XIV WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS

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A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XIV WALNUT AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS
Each with arched rectangular padded back and seat covered in close-nailed gros-point floral needlework, the leaf-wrapped downswept arms with scroll terminals on conforming short supports, above a padded seat and pierced foliate front stretcher centred by a flowering urn flanked by eagles, on turned baluster legs and leaf-wrapped feet, regilt, losses to carving (4)

拍品专文

Two closely related pairs of Louis XIV fauteuils, with similar acanthus-wrapped arm supports, foliate feet and pierced, richly carved stretchers, was sold Christie's New York, 30 March 1999, lots 17-18 ($21,850, each lot). Other related fauteuils in the château de Fontainebleau are illustrated in S. de Ricci, Louis XIV und Regence, Stuttgart, 1929, p. 85.