A LOUIS XV BEECHWOOD CANAPE

BY JEAN-BAPTISTE I OR JEAN-BAPTISTE II TILLIARD

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A LOUIS XV BEECHWOOD CANAPE
By Jean-Baptiste I or Jean-Baptiste II Tilliard
The channelled frame with flowers and foliage and scrolling cartouches, the padded back and bowed seat covered in green and red cut silk velvet, the toprail and seat-rail centred by a heart within a scrolled cartouche, on cabriole legs with scrolled feet, restorations to the underside, the cross-strutts replaced, stamped twice on the back seat-rail 'TILLIARD'
65 in. (165 cm.) long; 41 in. (104 cm.) high; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) deep

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Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard, matre in 1717, or his son Jean-Baptiste II Tilliard, matre in 1752.

Jean-Baptiste I Tilliard (1685 - 1766), was established in the rue de Clry where he worked all his life. Son of Jean Tilliard, also menuisier, Jean-Baptiste I is recorded as one of the most accomplished menuisiers of the Louis XV period. He worked for the Garde-meuble de la Couronne from 1730 and was acclaimed for supplying the most fashionable 'rocaille' seat-furniture to Versailles. His son Jean-Baptiste II joined the workshop and carried on the production after his father retired in 1764 using the same stamp.

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