Napoleon III fauteuil à la Reine. Louis XV style. Ca. 1850-1870 ?

Recently I bought this armchair at an internetauction for the equivalent of USD 100. It's made of stained and lacquered beechwood, carved with shell, Acanthus and more. Ceramic ? castors on frontlegs. My guess is that it's an Napoleon III fauteuil à la Reine. Louis XV style. Ca. 1850-1870 ? Later upholstery fabric.

What do you think ? Are my assumptions right ?

 

fauteuil à la reine in Louis XV style is okay. I'm not sure about the age though - the Italians.....

 

Yes ? Thank you ? Particularly the worn castors reveal that it's old. So what about the Italians ?

 

in Italy these Louis XV and also the Empire variation that is a bit more closed and in straight lines were made certainly into the 1920s.

 

Thank you. I don't doubt that you're right. It's the well kept but worn appearance that made me think of the Napoleon III period, when the Louis XV style was repeated. I suppose only a costly and unrealistic C14 test can give the true answer.

 

it would have helped if it wasn't covered with a rather neutral fabric but if there was a pic around with the original one.
generally spoken their are two main lines of possible origin.
1.French original.
1 a) French made after the original for museums with the original techniques and materials; mostly made in specialised ateliers around Paris; cost you an arm and a leg and the one that chose the new fabric would be guillotined...
1 b) French made for hotels of good standing but much cheaper.

2. Italian copy which includes all the above variations except the museum ones.

 

More photos. Probably doesn't help a bit ...

 

sorry, those carvings look terrible. I doubt the castors were original to the chair, possibly a marriage, the legs were adjusted to the inner diameter of the castors.

 

I'm sorry, I have to agree.

 

In the province they didn't have carvers as clever as those in Paris.

 

Never underestimate provincial carvers.

 

I never underestimate anyone. Everyone has hers or his advantages. Even though it at times seems unbelievable.

 

The 1920 and later reproductions were slightly smaller in width.

 

True. My chair has 'crinoline width'. I believe it's from about 1850-1870.

 

then it would not be a chair but called fauteuil in France.

 

True. As you remember I called it that in the headline. But outside France a chair.

 

Those castors, though, people restoring library chairs would pay 10 to 20 for them!

 

you mean in China ?