Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume III : À travers l’Hôtel Lambert
Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume III : À travers l’Hôtel Lambert
A Louis XV carved giltwood fauteuil à chassis, circa 1730
Auction Closed
October 13, 06:27 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
A Louis XV carved giltwood fauteuil à chassis, circa 1730
richly carved with foliage, cartouches and scrolls, upholstered with embroidered suede; (restorations to rails)
height 39¾in.; width 27½in.; depth 23⅔in.; 101,5 cm; 70 cm; 60 cm.
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Fauteuil à chassis et à dossier plat en bois doré d'époque Louis XV, vers 1730; (restaurations à la ceinture)
height 39¾in.; width 27½in.; depth 23⅔in.; 101,5 cm; 70 cm; 60 cm.
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Sotheby's Paris, 9 April 2008, lot 108.
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Sotheby's Paris, 9 avril 2008, lot 108.
This armchair "à chassis" presents decorations that are characteristic of the chairs made in Paris at the end of the Régence period. The motif of tied rushes on the backs can be found on seats from the early Louis XV period, for example on on four armchairs from the former Castellane collection, sale at Sotheby's Monaco on 9 December 1995, lot 64, but also on a sofa and two chairs from the former collection of Madame André Saint, sale in Paris on 2 May 1935, lot 146.
A fauteuil à chassis is kept in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs illustrated in B. Pallot, L'art du siège au XVIIIe siecle en France, Paris 1987, p 111. A second armchair in the same museum is illustrated in Pallot op.cit. p 113. These tied rushes can also be seen in the very famous Crozat furniture conserved in the Louvre Museum illustrated in B. Pallot, Le Mobilier du Louvre, Dijon, 1993, Tome 2, pp. 32-35, number 6.