Dodge, Rose Terrace, Grosse Pointe Farms,
Michigan (sold, Christie's, London, June 24,
1971, lot 66); purchased at that sale by
J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Anthony Coleridge, "Works of Art with a
Royal Provenance from the Collection of
the Late Mrs. Anna Thomson Dodge of
Detroit," Connoisseur 177, no. 711 (May
1971), p. 34, illus.; Kjellberg, Dictionnaire,
p. 426; Jean-Pierre Babelon, "Un magni
fique enrichissement des collections
nationales-Musée national du Chateau
de Versailles," La Revue du Louvre et des
Musées de France 5 (1990), p. 350.
One of a pair ΙΟΙ- Pair of Folding Stools (pliants)
Paris, circa 1786
By Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sene; carved by
Nicolas Vallois
Gessoed, painted, and gilded beech;
modern upholstery
Each stool branded with three fleur-de-lys
beneath a crown and with TH, the mark of
the Palais des Tuileries.
Height (without cushion): 1 ft. 4% in.
(42 cm); Width: 2 ft. 4/2 in. (72.5 cm);
Depth: 1 ft. 9 in. (53 cm)
Accession number 71. DA. 94.1-. 2
PROVENANCE
Marie-Antoinette, from a set of sixty-four
ordered in two groups by Jean Hauré in
1786, at the cost of 720 livres for each stool,
for the gaming rooms in the Chateau de
Fontainebleau and the Chateau de Com-
piégne; Palais du Luxembourg or Palais des
Tuileries, Paris, 1797-circa 1806; [Michel,
Paris, 1933]; Anna Thomson Dodge, Rose
Terrace, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
(sold, Christies, London, June 24,1971, lot
69); purchased at that sale by J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pierre Verlet, "Les meubles sculp tés du
XVIIIe siécle: Quelques identifications,"
Bulletin de la Société de Vhistoire de Vart
frangais (1937), pp. 259-263; Pierre Verlet,
French Royal Furniture (London, 1963),
pp. 35-36; Anthony Coleridge, "Works of
Art with a Royal Provenance from the
Collection of the Late Mrs. Anna Thomson
Dodge of Detroit," Connoisseur 177, no. 711
(May 1971), p. 34; Pierre Verlet, Les Meubles
frangais du XVIIIe Steele (Paris, 1982), p. 227;
Kjellberg, Dictionnaire, p. 818.One of four IOOFRENCH SEAT FURNITURE 69