Royal & Noble Including Jewels from an Important Noble Collection

Royal & Noble Including Jewels from an Important Noble Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 64. A French polychrome-decorated parcel-gilt throne armchair, early 19th century, after a wall painting in the tombs of the Valley of the Kings.

A French polychrome-decorated parcel-gilt throne armchair, early 19th century, after a wall painting in the tombs of the Valley of the Kings

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.