Piedmontese Early Louis XVI Style Giltwood Chair
£160
with oval stuffed back, rounded seat with unusual seatrail carving, perhaps in turquerie style, the stop-fluted tapering legs headed by swagged drapery.
circa 1900
With its pearls and exotic seatrail carving and swagged drapery crowning the legs, it’s tempting to surmise that this chair might have been conceived for a cabinet turque. The Comte d’Artois had a room in turquerie style in his suite of rooms at Versailles decorated in the mid 1770s, and another at his house, Le Temple, in Paris. Marie-Antoinette had a Boudoir Turque, still extant, at Fontainebleau, where the framing borders for the wall-panels of the troisième cabinet, designed by Richard Mique in 1777, are very similar to the seatrail of the offered chair
