A LOUIS XVI CREAM-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT LIT D'ALCOVE

LATE 18TH CENTURY, STAMPED I B LELARGE

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A LOUIS XVI CREAM-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT LIT D'ALCOVE
late 18th century, stamped i b lelarge
Each arched end with stiff-leaf and ribbon-carved frame and acorn-form finials, with fluted uprights and turned fluted legs, the side rails carved with leaf-and-dart, redecorated, lacking two finials
50½in. (128cm.) high, 79in. (201cm.) long, 45in. (114cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Jean-Baptiste Lelarge III, maître in 1775

Jean-Baptiste Lelarge III, the son of menuisier Jean-Baptiste Lelarge II, assumed the control of his father's atelier in 1771.

A closely related lit 'à Romaine' by Georges Jacob circa 1781-82 in the Residenz, Munich is illustrated in B. Langer and H. Ottomeyer, Die Französischen Möbel des 18. Jahrhunderts, 1995, p. 285, fig. 86. Another similar bed by Sené and Laurent delivered in 1791 for the chamber of Madame Élizabeth at Fontainebleau is illustrated in P. Verlet, Le Mobilier Royal Français, 1990, vol. IV, p. 177. Another similar bed now in the Mobilier National is illustrated in G. Janneau, Lits de Repos & Lits, 1977, pl. XXII.