Lot 287
287
AN EARLY LOUIS XV BEECHWOOD FAUTEUIL
AN EARLY LOUIS XV BEECHWOOD FAUTEUIL

STAMPED L· CRESSON, CIRCA 1730

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AN EARLY LOUIS XV BEECHWOOD FAUTEUIL
Stamped L· CRESSON, Circa 1730
With scalloped scroll-carved crestrail above a square cartouche-form caned back and seat with later loose brown leather-covered squab-cushion above a rocaille-carved seatrail centered by a blossom, on similarly-carved cabriole legs and toupie feet, with a paper label with stencilled number 477 and another indistinctly inscribed paper label

Lot Essay

Louis I Cresson, maître in 1738.

A virtually-identical fauteuil by Cresson is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 208, fig. B.

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