Decorative Arts & Design
Stool
Permanent ExhibitionFurniture
Details
- Author / creator
- Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené (French, 1748–1803)
- Object type
- Furniture
- Date or period
- 1786–87
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 44.8 × 71.5 × 51.6 cm
- Maker or workshop
- Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené
- Period / style
- Neoclassical / Regency
- Place of origin
- France
- Acquisition method
- Bequest
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Miss Dorothy Cardew, 1954
- Image rights
- Public domain (CC0)
About this object
These stools were made for the gaming room of Marie-Antoinette at the Chateau de Compiègne and later placed in the Chateau de Fontainbleau.
Materials and technique
Carved and gilded wood
