Living-room furniture in rosewood and inlaid lemon-wood fill - Lot 183

Living-room furniture in rosewood and inlaid lemon-wood fillets, comprising a suite of SIX ARMCHAIRS with scrolled armrests and EIGHT CHAIRS decorated with rosettes and foliage in filleted frames, console front legs. Upholstered in green and gold fabric with Empire motifs. Stamped Jeanselme Charles X period Armchair : H. :94 cm - W. : 57 cm - D. : 50 cm Chair: H.: 89 cm - W.: 44 cm - D.: 42 cm (Minor wear) An important family of cabinetmakers who practiced for over a hundred years, from 1824 to 1930, the Jeanselme family founded a factory in 1824 to manufacture armchairs and chairs of all kinds. In 1847, they bought the stock of the prestigious Jacob firm. From then on, they manufactured furniture, and were among the main suppliers to the Garde-Meuble under Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III. The Jeanselme firm participated in industrial product exhibitions, as well as in the Exposition Universelle of 1851 and 1855. Bibliography: Le mobilier français du XIXe siècle, Denise Ledoux-Lebard p.374-385.