PAIR OF HENRI IV CHAIRS

PAIR OF HENRI IV CHAIRS

 

ORIGIN: FRANCE

PERIOD: LATE 16th CENTURY

 

Height: 89cm

Seat height: 54,5cm

Depth: 40cm

Seat depth: 50cm

 

Blond walnut wood

Old gold fabric upholstery

Good condition

 

 

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Description

This type of elegant chair made from a fine walnut wood appears during the late sixteenth century. 

Its wide and low seat stands on four feet linked by an H-shaped spacer and a crossbar for the facade. While the feet and spacers were plain during the previous reigns they are now turn-made. The backrest is low, a characteristic of the period. 

Those chairs present a great interest especially because of the unity of the wood-turning and of the skills the wood-turners applied to the making of the balusters.