Lot n° 56
Estimation :
180000 - 200000
EUR
Result with fees
Result
: 244 559EUR
ATTRIBUÉS AUX FOLIOT
* ATTRIBUTED TO FOLIOT
NICOLAS-QUINIBERT (1706-1776) AND TOUSSAINT (AROUND 1715-1798)
Carpenters in Paris
PAIR OF "X" SHAPED BENDINGS
Louis XVI period, circa 1773.
Richly carved and gilded beech.
H. 45 cm W. 70 cm D. 54 cm
Chips in the gilding and missing parts. Upholstery in red silk velvet
with trimmings in bad condition.
One has its three tassels, the tassels are missing for
the other one. The trim is not original, but from the nineteenth century.
The four ends in stock are diminished for the one. For the other, two ends are original and can be used as a model.
The other two are diminished. (A piece of one of the stocks is broken
but preserved).
They were part of the winter furniture of the bedroom
of the Countess of Artois at the Palace of Versailles. Each " X "
is made of four "cones", those of the top with torso flutes
those of the bottom with the same groove torso on a third, then
of an entourage of lancets, joined at the base by a small
of foliage. The skids are richly decorated with three bases
of acanthus and seeds. The axis that joins the "X" is decorated with a
of foliage.
Provenance :
- One of two pairs sold at Sotheby's
New-York on October 31, 1987, lot number 123
and 123 A. (Lot 123 sold for $93,500.)
References:
- Four folders attributed to the Foliot and
part of the Collections of Versailles. They are
displayed in the Grands Appartements de la reine
(inventory number C 60-018.1/2/3 & 4) listed in
in Bill Pallot's book, L'Art du siège au XVIIIe
century, page 266, the author attributes this work to
Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot. An order for a
of twelve folding chairs had been placed to the
Foliot in 1769 for the Salon des Jeux de la Reine
and the bedroom of Marie Antoinette in Versailles
Versailles (Fig. 1 and 2). These folders having disappeared,
they are the folders created by the Foliot brothers for the
for the Countess of Artois which are presented today
in the queen's bedroom, as they are very close to
to the model of Marie-Antoinette. Note a difference
difference in the lower part of the feet at the level
the base of acanthus leaves.
- Folder belonging to the series of the Countess
d'Artois and in the Collection of the Brooklyn
of the Brooklyn Museum of New York with a base
with a base identical to our pair.
(Dim. 53.3 x 66 x 52.1 cm). This stool
(Inventory number: 68.202.4) was part of the
Collection of Mrs Mary Hayward Weir
(1915-1968) who bequeathed it to the Brooklyn Museum
in 1968.
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