Transition Period Commode Chair. Armrests With Red Leather Cuffs. Around 1770. XVIII Es

Interesting Transition period commode chair - early Louis XVI. Everything is original, including the cane to be re-tensioned. It is a beautiful testimony to the transition from the Louis XV style to the Louis XVI style. The fluted feet and the straight back...Yet the curved arms are still Louis XV. The armrests with cuffs are covered in period red leather...It is a beautiful piece of provincial furniture and an interesting testimony to the history of "everyday life". Transition Period V. 1770-1775. For a spicy anecdote, let us cite Louis de Rouvroy, better known under the title of "Duc de Saint-Simon", incredible French memoirist who, a century earlier, testified about the Duke of Vendôme: "The airs of convenience and familiarity which he accustomed the world to see him take under the mask of simplicity and aversion to constraint gradually turned into distinction, and from one to the other approached with the common people the manners of princes some blood. His uncleanliness, not to say his unbearable filth, became in him a singularity which little by little turned into greatness [...] he had accustomed everyone to his commode, on which he spent his mornings entertaining both the crowd and the most distinguished people of all kinds, before whom as it came to him he did without ceremony what one is in such a position for." (Journal of the Marquis de Dangeau, V. 1711-1715). In house condition. Sit 40 cm from the feet.