£2,250
Decorative Arts: Design since 1860 | 616
Auction: Decorative Arts: Design since 1860
pearwood, later-painted white, the moulded openwork back carved with a stylised basket of flowering roses above an upholstered seat on tapering legs
Literature: Marcilhac, Félix André Groult: Décorateur-Ensemblier du XXème Siècle, L'Amateur (French Edition) 1997, pp. 23 (illus. no.2); 26 (illus. no.1) and 40 (illus. no.1)
Note: The stylised basket of flowers or fruit used on this piece became a characteristic motif in Groult's iconography.