An Empire giltwood ceremonial armchair, from Napoleon’s Throne Room at the Palais des Tuileries, by François-Honore-Georges Jacob-Desmalter, after a drawing by Percier et Fontaine, circa 1804
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
with a richly carved crest backrest and armrests decorated with winged griffins, Etruscan-style feet, with blue and gold embroidered silk upholstery, black ink marks TT73, 1579, and 17222, mark TH in an oval circle with three fleurs-de-lis under a crown, R. MESLEE, labeled Château des Tuileries / 1829. - N°1535-8 - Salon de réception de Monseigneur de Dauphin; and a more recent label 110087500
Height 41 ¼ in, width 26 ¾ in, depth 58 cm ; Haut. 105 cm, larg. 68 cm, prof. 58 cm
Delivered in 1804 for the Throne Room of the Tuileries Palace, where it remained until 1816;
Drawing room of Louis XVIII from 1816 to 1824;
Reception room of His Royal Highness the Dauphin from 1824 to 1830;
Audience room on the ground floor facing the courtyard in 1833;
Registered in the Crown Furniture Repository from 1833 onward;
Salon of the Duke of Bassano, Grand Chamberlain to Napoleon III, between 1853 and 1870;
Acquired from the expert Pierre-François Dayot by the current owner in 2013.
Related Litterature
T. Sarmant (dir.), Palais disparus de Napoléon : Tuileries, Saint-Cloud, Meudon, Paris, 2021, exhibition catalogue, Galerie des Gobelins, 15 Sept. 2021 - 15 Jan. 2022
N. Bondil (dir.), Napoléon : La maison de l'Empereur, Paris, 2018, exhibition catalogue, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 3 February - 6 May 2018
J.-P. Garric, et V. Cochet (dir.), Charles Percier (1764-1838) : Architecture et design, Paris, 2017, exhibition catalogue, Château de Fontainebleau, 18 March - 19 June 2017
J.-P. Samoyault, Mobilier Français : Consulat et Empire, Paris, 2009 , pp. 149, 150, 159.
O. Nouvel-Kammerer (dir.), L’aigle et le papillon : symboles des pouvoirs sous Napoléon (1800-1815), Paris, 2008, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Arts décoratifs de Paris, 2 April – 5 October 2008, p. 197
Napoleon Special Exhibition, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Pudong, Shanghai, 27 October 2018 – 28 February 2019
Le sacre de Napoléon, Chapelle des Jésuites de Saint-Omer, 18 June – 25 September 2022