Each with a scrolled dished top and an opposing volute scroll, anthemion and acanthus spray toprail centred by a flowerhead, the bowed seat frame with similar decoration centred by an elongated scrolled tablet, with lotus-leaf clasped and scroll capped arm supports, on two acanthus and stiff-leaf wrapped lion-bust headed monopodiae terminating in animalistic legs and lion paw feet, with splayed square section rear legs, each side applied with scrolled stylised foliage interspersed with anthemia and paterae, each fauteuil stamped: 'L.BELLANGE' and one fauteuil stamped: 'CH'
39 in. (100 cm.) high; 27¹⁄₂ in. (71 cm.) wide; 28 in. (72 cm.) deep

The Collection of Dino Fabbri; Koller, Zürich, September 2005, lot 1276.
Anonymous sale; Bonhams, London, 13 July 2022, lot 64,
where acquired.

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The model for this seat-furniture, which derives from antiquity, was popularised through the work of Percier & Fontaine, who include designs for armchairs and tables with lion monopodia supports in their Recueil de Décorations Intérieures (1812). A watercolour design of this model, part of 'Deux projets de fauteuils', circa 1817-20, signed by Louis-Alexandre Bellangé (1797–1861), son of Pierre-Antoine, is in a collection of drawings from l'atelier Bellangé, now held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (S. Cordier, Bellangé, ébénistes: Une historie du goût au xix sièle, Paris, 2012, fig. 4). This design represents armchairs attributable to Pierre-Antoine Bellangé of 1815-20, and is closely related to seat-furniture from the Billiard Room of the château of Saint-Ouen of Zoé, comtesse du Cayla (ibid., p. 489, PAB 107). These designs by the son suggest an educational study of the work of the father, and during the later period of contractual association between father and son, from 1820 to 1825 in the workshop at la rue Neuve-Saint-Denise, this model of armchair could be stamped either 'P. Bellangé', as in this example, or 'L. Bellangé'. Examples of armchairs stamped 'L. Bellangé are illustrated in ibid., p. 500, 'LAB 1', and a pair of armchairs from the Ariane Dandois collection sold Sotheby's, New York, 25-26 October 2007, lot 523.