1 pair of armchairs Louis XV

France 18th century. Later painted grey.

Dimensions : 87 x 60 x 54 cm

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Provenance: Estate of Albert & Rudolf von Gross (Dermbach 1912 & 1914-2002), sons of Siegfried von GROSS (1870-1955), District Captain of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Governor of the Prussian Guard, Castellan of Dermbach, OSJ (Occupational Youth), and Ep. 1911 Johanna Ziegler (1877-1945), EHL-doctorate lawyer, hotelier in Ain-Diab, Casablanca, Morocco (adopted in 1925 by Henri von ROTT). Ep. 1953 Liliane PETER, div. LIAUTAUD (1915-1987). No descendants. (www.vongross.org)

The von GROSS family is a patrician family originally from Zofingen in Aargau, where they lived from the mid-16th century (Gesellschaft zu Pfistern). They were members of the Grand Council in 1645, continuously until 1798. The GROSS family served as Bern's city clerk four times. They served numerous council members, officers in the service of France, Holland, England, and Piedmont, and Franz-Gabriel von GROSS (1715-1785), a Bernese general, chamberlain of Saxe-Weimar, and commander of the Grand Ducal Military Establishment. They owned the Trevelins estate near Aubonne and the Hubelgut estate in Habstetten. They received the title of Baron in Vienna in 1783 from Emperor Joseph II of Austria.

With Karl Rudolf Hermann von Gross (1824-1899), an officer in Austria, a Bernese line died out in 1899. The Weimar branch with Siegfried Wilhelm Gabriel von GROSS (1870-1955) and his two sons Rudolf von GROSS (1912-2002) and Albert von GROSS (1914-2002), Dr.in Law and lic. im sc. politics, settled in Bern after leaving Nazi Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933.