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Pair of folding chairs in molded, carved, lacquered and gilded beechwood. The rectangular, checked seats are fitted with cushions covered in red velvet with a gilded background. They rest on sinuous, articulated X-shaped legs decorated with scrolls and volutes. France. First half of the 19th century, circa 1830. H_55 cm W_80 cm H_71 cm Ployant chairs have almost always been protocol seats reserved for sovereign courts. The use of seats at court is entirely linked to respect for rules of precedence or etiquette. Thus, in the presence of the king or queen, both seated on a chaise à bras, the only people allowed to sit, and only on a tabouret (or ployant), were sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters of France, princesses of the blood and foreign duchesses and princesses. Princes de sang, cardinals, dukes and peers remained standing like all the others. Several ployants similar to this pair are known, most of them by François or Nicolas Quinibert Foliot (Fig. 1).
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Pair of folding chairs in molded, carved, lacquered and gilded beechwood. The rectangular, checked seats are fitted with cushions covered in red velvet with a gilded background. They rest on sinuous, articulated X-shaped legs decorated with scrolls and volutes. France. First half of the 19th century, circa 1830. H_55 cm W_80 cm H_71 cm Ployant chairs have almost always been protocol seats reserved for sovereign courts. The use of seats at court is entirely linked to respect for rules of precedence or etiquette. Thus, in the presence of the king or queen, both seated on a chaise à bras, the only people allowed to sit, and only on a tabouret (or ployant), were sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters of France, princesses of the blood and foreign duchesses and princesses. Princes de sang, cardinals, dukes and peers remained standing like all the others. Several ployants similar to this pair are known, most of them by François or Nicolas Quinibert Foliot (Fig. 1).
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