Designed by the architect Bernard Poyet (1742-1834), as part of a set of seat furniture, including a throne, for the reception of the Emperor Napoleon by the <i>corps législatif</i> after his coronation in 1805. The stool was one of four. Later the set must have been removed to the Château de Saint Cloud, where it was presumably re-upholstered during the period of the Second Empire (1852-71). Another of the set (with modern yellow damask upholstery) was illustrated in 2002 by Michel Beurdely, in Georges Jacob (1739-1814) et son temps (Château de Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau: Éditions Monelle Hayot, 2002), p. 100.
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Designed by the architect Bernard Poyet (1742-1834), as part of a set of seat furniture, including a throne, for the reception of the Emperor Napoleon by the <i>corps législatif</i> after his coronation in 1805. The stool was one of four. Later the set must have been removed to the Château de Saint Cloud, where it was presumably re-upholstered during the period of the Second Empire (1852-71). Another of the set (with modern yellow damask upholstery) was illustrated in 2002 by Michel Beurdely, in Georges Jacob (1739-1814) et son temps (Château de Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau: Éditions Monelle Hayot, 2002), p. 100.