Louis XVI French Duchess Briseé Set c.1860

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Louis XVI French Duchess Briseé Set c.1860An elegant and gentle three piece French Duchess Brise set. French for broken Duchess a term for a chaise longue with a separate footstool. Made from his and hers chairs joining together as a lounge chair. Ready to be re upholstered or simply placed as a wonderful objet dart. Largest chair size listed. Stool 45 cm high x 62 cm wide x 62 cm deep. Smaller chair 79 cm high x 66 cm wide x 58 cm deep.

A perfectly proportioned and unusually small-sized Regency Pier mirror c

The front of the glass is covered in a thick coat of brown pigment

With stunning variable patina and elemental distressing to its’ convex glass surface and time worn patination to the white and red metal frame

the lower cupboard has two large fielded panel doors with turned peg handles

one is 97cm high

Retaining its’ original delicately foxed glass with beautifully distressed gilding

The Abbey’s origins date back to as early as AD 675

Height 74 cm to top

The deeply incised carved ‘pinholes’ for pupils in the eye sockets served to represent a point of spiritual communication with the ritual object

hard yet soft

Every piece is completely unique - like a work of art

and water will spout from his mouth making a dramatic and unusual centrepiece to your garden of pool