Victorian Pottery Seat or Low Table
£2,400
An unusual pottery cushion seat or low table modelled in the form of a pile of three cushions with yellow cord binding and decorated with polychrome flowers on a lettuce-green ground
Height 36 cm (14.25 inches)
Width 60 cm (23.5 inches)
mid 19th century
Provenance
By repute this cushion garden seat once formed part of the furnishings of Madeleine Castaing’s home, Maison de Léves.
Whilst there appears to be no surviving image of the stool in situ at Léves, Madeleine Castaing is known to have owned at least two more stools of the same model though with different decoration, the first shown illustrated here in the guest bedroom of Léves. Madeleine Castaing included the second such cushion stool on her stand at the 1948 Salon des Antiquares, illustrated here in a rendering by Alexandre Serebriakoff
