Voyeuse "Avray" -C&G-

Pair of louis xvi voyeuses in carved and partially gilded wood.
Made after a design of George Jacob.

Decorated with a band of ribbons around the belt and a lyre-shaped "back". upholstery in a puces colored lampas embroidered with small flowers.

The voyeuse was a very specific type of chair born in the mid-18th century, made to observe a card game, so that the observer placed the "back" facing the table, and sat facing the game resting the elbows on the upper “accoudoirs” which commonly held an inner space to store game chips.

c. 1780