拍品 383
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The Property of The Late MISS ESMEE SOUTHEY Sold by Order of the Executors
A RUSSIAN GILT-BRONZE AND LACQUER BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY FAUTEUIL SANS ACCOTOIRS, the panelled tapering tablet back and squab cushion covered in close-nailed black leather, the stiles mounted with acanthus-sprays, on lioness-headed fluted tapering sabre legs terminating in foliate caps and castors, stamped B twice, circa 1800

细节
A RUSSIAN GILT-BRONZE AND LACQUER BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY FAUTEUIL SANS ACCOTOIRS, the panelled tapering tablet back and squab cushion covered in close-nailed black leather, the stiles mounted with acanthus-sprays, on lioness-headed fluted tapering sabre legs terminating in foliate caps and castors, stamped B twice, circa 1800

拍品专文

This impressive bureau-chair, epitomises the 'antique' style popularised by C. Percier and P. Fontaine's, Recesuil de décorations intérieures, 1801. Its pattern was invented by the ebéniste Henri Jacob (d.1824) during Napoleon Buonaparte's Consulat (1799-1804). Jacob's brand featured on a similar chair from the Prince Murat collection sold at Hotel Drouot, 14 June 1983, lot 124
The pattern for this type of klismos chair-back was provided to Jacob by the Percier (d.1838), author with Pierre Fontaine of Recueil de décorations intérieures, 1801 (see: D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Francais du XIX Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 283)