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A gilded wood "cordage" TABOURET with a base joined by a bra…
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Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
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A gilded wood "cordage" TABOURET with a base joined by a brace forming a knot. Padded seat upholstered in burgundy velvet centred with a medallion in floral fabric. Napoleon III period. Height: 45 cm - Diameter: 63 cm This stool was designed by the master upholsterer A.M.E. Fournier. He was based at 109 Boulevard Beaumarchais from 1850, then at 12 Boulevard des Capucines in 1867. A similar model is kept at the Metropolitan Museum in New York in the 19th-century galleries, donated in 1985 by Arthur and Madeleine Lejwa, another at the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris and several others at the Palais de Compiègne. Bibliography: - A similar stool is reproduced in Helena Hayward's "World Furniture", London, 1965, p. 241, pl. 928 and in J.M. Moulin's "L'Ameublement du Palais de Compiègne pendant le Second Empire", The Connoisseur, December 1978, p. 253.
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About the sale [PREPARATION] Compiègne Royale & Impériale | Centuries of equestrian and hunting elegance
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Auction time 11/14/2026 at 2:30 PM
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