A Louis XVI Mahogany Caned Fauteuil de Bureau, Late 18th Century
Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A Louis XVI Mahogany Caned Fauteuil de Bureau, Late 18th Century
the gondola-form back covered in close-nailed leather with acanthus scroll armrests on moulded curved supports; the circular revolving seat with a squab cushion and leaf-tip and fluted rails on four tapering stop-fluted legs with a squab cushion; the underside of the rails with four batten holes and stamped PLS. DES TUIL / PLS. DES TUILES, TH. and with the Restauration Garde-Meuble de la Couronne stamp of three fleur-de-lys surmounted by a crown within an oval.
height 29 ½ in.; width 22 ½ in.; depth 25 in.
75 cm; 57 cm; 63.5 cm
French Imperial and Royal Collections, Palais des Tuileries, Paris, during the First Empire (1804-1815) and Restauration (1815-1830);
With Galerie Steinitz, Paris;
Christie's London, 21 September 2022, lot 23;
Where acquired by the present collector.
Although the contents of the French royal châteaux were largely auctioned off during the French Revolution, the authorities also confiscated and retained a significant quantity of furniture from private individuals who had emigrated or were executed on the guillotine, and some of this was then used to re-furnish the palaces when they were newly inhabited by the Napoleonic Court after 1801 and the restored Bourbon Monarchy from 1814.
The majority of caned fauteuils de bureau (desk chairs) from the Louis XV and Louis XVI periods were manufactured from walnut or beech. sometimes painted or gilded, and the use of mahogany is more rare. A related desk chair in mahogany stamped by Joseph Gegenbach, known as Canabas (maître in 1766) was sold Christie's Paris, 28 November 2018, lot 199.
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