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A very rare set of four Louis XIV carved gilt tabourets, each with a square padded seat covered in close nailed blue and gold silk velvet on square tapering panelled legs headed by gadrooned collars and ornamented with trailing buds and beads, joined by an H-shaped stretcher on square feet Paris, date circa 1710 Height 44 cm, 48 cm. square each. During Louis XIV’s reign there was a rigid etiquette, which prescribed who were and were not allowed to sit on tabourets at Court. The distinction of sitting on a tabouret was eagerly sought after

 



RICHARD REDDING ANTIQUES

Dorfstrasse 30
8322 Gündisau, Switzerland,

tel +41 44 212 00 14
mobile + 41 79 333 40 19
fax +41 44 212 14 10

redding@reddingantiques.ch

Exhibitor at TEFAF, Maastricht
Member of the Swiss Antique Association
Founding Member of the Horological Foundation

Art Research: 
Alice Munro Faure, B.Ed. (Cantab),
Kent/GB, alice@munro-faure.co.uk

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