Outstanding French Wooden Sedan Chair with Hand-Painted Scenes Signed by Artist

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20" (51 cm.) h. x 9" w. x 9"d. The wooden sedan chair (chaise a porteur) has bombe shaped roof and back,three beveled windows,front opening door,and elaborate cast metal crest,finials,mounts and carrying brackets. The interior is lined with original padded patterned silk,and there are fringed silk valances at each window. The sedan chair is decorated with original artist-painted finish to simulate aged canvas and all four sides have exquisitely- painted scenes in the 18th century romantic style encircled with garlands and scrolls; one panel is signed Grison. Beautifully-preserved condition,with original carrying rods having velvet covers. French,circa 1875,a luxury work in the manner of objets d'art offered by prestige Parisian establishments such as Maison Giroux which likely commissioned the work with scenes to be painted by Francois Adolphe Grison (1845-1915,listed in Benezit).