Elegant set consisting of an armchair and a pair of Etruscan mahogany chairs from the Directoire-Consulat period, 1795-1805.

The reversed backrests with butts forming a subtle S openwork and carved with an Athenian woman and caduceus with goat's feet.
The connecting dice shaped like hooves, creating a reminder of the horned animal.
Ringed armrest supports and front legs, saber backs.

The three seats are stamped P.MARCION, for Pierre-Benoît Marcion (1769-1840), who was one of Napoleon 1st main suppliers. 
From the time of the Directoire, he had a workshop and a cabinetmaking shop, rue Neuve-des-Petits-Champs, near rue Chabanais, "Aux Égyptiens", and published advertisements inviting the public to see his "choice of style furniture, in mahogany wood, richly decorated with bronze, according to the beautiful shapes of Etruscan, Egyptian, Greek and Roman Antiquities”. His house, having grown in importance, was soon transferred to rue Helvétius (formerly Sainte-Anne), then rue Saint-Marc. 
In 1806, Marcion presented tenders to the Garde-meuble for the supply of boat beds, sofas, bergères and armchairs with winged figures, seats with "saber sheath" legs, psyches, tripod washbasins, somnos or bedside tables. , etc. A large number of works were requested from him for the palaces of Saint-Cloud, Trianon, Compiègne, Fontainebleau and Rambouillet. 
One of his capital works was the Empress Marie-Louise's bed which he executed in 1809. This couch, all in gilded walnut, offered very rich sculptures decorated with swans, garlands and foliage; it was completed by two torchieres bearing kneeling figures which supported the draperies of the baldachin.
Marcion was also entrusted with considerable work for the service of the ministers and grand officers of the Crown. Victim of a crisis that raged throughout French industry in the last years of Napoleon's reign, this cabinetmaker went bankrupt in 1814. The State collections contain a few pieces bearing the stamp of P. MARCION.
 
The set is in superb condition, with a very beautiful new leopard velvet upholstery.

 Stamped P.MARCION

Circa: 1795-1805.

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