A pair of joined walnut and upholstered high-back side chairs, Anglo-Dutch, circa 1700-1715


In the so-called Marot style, after Daniel Marot (1663-1752)Each with an arched carved and pierced cresting centred by a basket of flowers, above a floral-carved and pierced splat with matching basket resting on a lambrequin pediment, flanked by paired shouldered-baluster 'bannister' turnings, the stuff-over seat upholstered in fringed crimson floral cut-velvet, raised on shouldered-baluster turned legs, united by similar turned H-form and arched foliate stretchers, 50cm wide x 51cm deep x 127cm high, (19 1/2in wide x 20in deep x 50in high) (2)
|Provenance:Purchased from William CleggDaniel Marot was a French-born architect, engraver and designer. He trained at the French court of Louis XIV, but as a Protestant was forced to flee to The Hague after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. In the Netherlands Marot worked at the palace of Het Loo, for the Stadholder, William of Orange-Nassau, who later became William III of England, bringing Marot with him to work at Hampton Court, Surrey. Marot's best work is now known through his engravings Oeuvres de Sr. D. Marot, architect de Guillaume III, published 1703.