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Lot Essay
Franois I Foliot, maître in 1749.
These chairs, with Grecian lyre-scrolled backs with ribbon-fret volutes and laurel-festooned urns in the arched crest-rails, are conceived in the 'goût antique' fashion popularised by Jean Charles Delafosse's Receuil de Meubles of 1768.
The stencilled 'F' to the webbing is that usually associated with Fontainebleau. This stencil is, however, slightly smaller than the recorded marks which are usually followed by an inventory number.
These chairs, with Grecian lyre-scrolled backs with ribbon-fret volutes and laurel-festooned urns in the arched crest-rails, are conceived in the 'goût antique' fashion popularised by Jean Charles Delafosse's Receuil de Meubles of 1768.
The stencilled 'F' to the webbing is that usually associated with Fontainebleau. This stencil is, however, slightly smaller than the recorded marks which are usually followed by an inventory number.