Each with arched back centred by a shell issuing acanthus and flanked by trailing floral garlands, above a back and seat covered in Aubusson-style tapestry depicting florals and courting couples, on cabriole legs carved with roses, stamped 'OUIGNON'
39¹⁄₂ in. (100.5 cm.) high; 23¹⁄₂ in. (59.5 cm.) wide; 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

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These chairs in the palatial Louis XV style are exemplary of the maker Quignon who specialised in carved and gilded furniture, especially seat furniture like the present examples. Their production was renowned for its high quality as befitting of display at the great exhibitions, including London in 1862 and Paris in 1855, 1867, 1878 and 1889. Established at 5 bis, rue Saint-Sébastein in 1849 by Napoléon Quignon and continued by his son Gustave, thereafter known as Quignon Fils et Cie. Recorded commissions included seven chairs delivered to the Garde-Meuble in 1859 and seat furniture to the palaces of Fontainebleau in 1860 and the Tuileries in 1861. Quignon participated in the Exposition française in Moscow in 1891 and closed around 1905, as indicated by a sale of their stock that year.

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