Napoleonic Style Painted and Parcel-Gilt Stool after a Design by Bernard Poyet
the rectangular seat raised on supports carved as two pairs of sheathed sabres
Height 67cm (26 1/4 inches)
Width 91cm (36 inches)
Depth 46cm (18 inches)
circa 1900
Based on the famous set of stools designed by the architect, Bernard Poyet (1742-1824, here illustrated), and made by François-Honoré Jacob-Desmalter, for the newly crowned Emperor’s reception by the Corps Législatif in 1805. They were later moved to the Château de. St. Cloud
