Important ceremonial armchair with frame and curved backrest in mahogany and mahogany veneer. Console of sculpted swan-shaped armrests. Front legs in lion claw sheath, hind legs in sabre. Ornamentation of foliage, flowers, fleurons and palmettes in gilt bronze.
Attributed to Jacob Desmalter, probably after a drawing by Percier et Fontaine.
Empire period, circa 1810.
Height 110 - Width 77 cm
With an apocryphal stamp by G. Jacob.
Provenance:
- By tradition : Throne of Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (1778-1846)
- Special Collection
Exhibition :
Een koninklijk museum: Lodewijk Napoleon en het Rijksmuseum 1806-1810 , Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1999-2000
Bibliography :
- Catalogue exposition : F. Grijzenhout, Een koninklijk museum: Lodewijk Napoleon en het Rijksmuseum 1806-1810 [Louis Napoleon and the Rijksmuseum 1806-1810], Amsterdam, 1999.
- Exhibition catalogue: Louis-Napoleon and the Holland of his time, Amsterdam, 1959.
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