Lot 551
Lot 551
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GREY-PAINTED VOYEUSES

LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Price Realised USD 5,040
Estimate
USD 3,000 - USD 5,000
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GREY-PAINTED VOYEUSES

LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

Price Realised USD 5,040
Price Realised USD 5,040
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Each with shaped padded elbow rest above a shield-shaped padded back on channeled uprights, the circular padded seat with channeled seat-rail on cylindrical tapering fluted legs headed by paterae, upholstered in a cream cut silk, each with underside inscribed in black paint 'RMA.' and one inscribed in white chalk '64'; formerly painted black
3312 in. (84 cm.) high, 18 in. (46 cm.) wide, 21 in. (53.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940.
Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Buxheim monastery, Germany.
Returned directly from the above to France and restituted to the Rothschild family
By descent to the present owners.
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