Royal & Noble Including Jewels from an Important Noble Collection
Royal & Noble Including Jewels from an Important Noble Collection
Lot Closed
January 17, 02:56 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
the seat and tall back upholstered with hand-painted velvet with star motifs, the reverse covered with sand-coloured floral velvet, the armrests in the form of giltwood lions, the deep seat rail with a painted velvet frieze of Egyptian figures in profile contained by a basket-weave border, the animalistic legs terminating in paw-and-ball feet on brass castors
This lot will be on view in our New Bond Street galleries on 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 15th, 16th and 17th January 2024.
With Galerie Nicole Mugler, Paris;
With Carlton Hobbs;
Private collection.
Florence de Dampierre, Chairs: A History, Paris, 2006, (ill.), p. 296.