Armchair (Fauteuil)
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The oval back is inscribed within a rectangular frame and has openwork carving of flowers and leaf scrolls in the four corners. A carved laurel wreath surmounts the crest rail and four turned and fluted tapering legs support the seat. This armchair was part of the model collection of woodwork, paneling and seat furniture of Maison Leys, a successful decorating business, located at the Place de la Madeleine in Paris. Since 1885 the business was directed by Georges Hoentschel who installed the collection in 1903 in a museum-like display at Boulevard Flandrin, Paris. Three years later, Hoentschel sold the collection to J. Pierpont Morgan who gave the chair with the rest of the decorator’s seventeenth and eighteenth century objects to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1907.
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