RARE PAIRE DE PLIANTS PROVENANT PROBABLEMENT DE... Lot n° 194

Pair of folding X-shaped stools in carved beech wood, partially gilded and rechamfered (restorations), with curved branches of rectangular cross-section, centered on a patera decorated with a rosette, with rectangular side rails, the sabots partly gadrooned and gilded. Antique upholstery (refinished circa 1830). Good overall condition; previously folding, they are now secured by two screws; belts probably redone by Lebrun (known to be active circa 1812, fire mark on one), probably circa 1820, which would explain why they are unmarked. First Empire period, circa 1806. Attributed to Jean-Baptiste RODE (1735-?). H. 50 x W. 67 x D. 47 cm. Provenance - Probably two of the thirty folders delivered in 1806 for the Premier Salon de l'Appartement de L'Impératrice at the Palais de Fontainebleau. - Dalva Brothers, New York. - Purchased in 1960 by Mrs. Lerner. - Collection Micheline Lerner, née Muzzelli Pozzo di Borgo (c. 1928-2012). - Her sale, Sotheby's, New York, April 24, 2013, lot 71 (sold for $46,875). - Private collection, Paris. Literature One of the 30 folders is illustrated in: Jean-Pierre Samoyault, Mobilier Français Consulat et Empire, Paris, 2009, p. 178, fig. 302. It is currently one of 22 remaining folders in the Château de Fontainebleau.