A PAIR OF EARLY LOUIS XV WALNUT FAUTEUILS A LA REINE

CIRCA 1735

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A PAIR OF EARLY LOUIS XV WALNUT FAUTEUILS A LA REINE
Circa 1735
Each padded shaped rectangular back, arms and wide trapezoidal sprung seat upholstered in 18th century cream-ground gros and petit point needlework depicting a handled urn issuing scrolling flowering vines and acanthus leaves within an interlocking geometrical surround with rockwork and scrolling acanthus leaves, the arched grooved crest-rail with central ruffled acanthus clasp flanked to each side by acanthus-carved uprights, the inscrolled arm terminals on acanthus-carved back-swept supports, the bowed and waved apron similarly carved above acanthus-headed cabriole legs with inscrolled feet, one with a partial modern metal dealer's tag (2)

Provenance

With Bon Tempo Antiques, Buenos Aires

Lot Essay

With their distinctive pieds en rouleaux, these fauteuils are clearly inspired by the designs of the ornameniste Nicolas Pineau. A design for a more fully developed Louis XV fauteuil in the Musée des Arts Decoratif, Paris, is illustrated in B.G.B. Pallot, L'Art du Siège au XVIIIe Siècle, Tours, 1987, p. 121. Such pieds en rouleaux were swiftly adopted by menuistes like père Gourdin and Louis Cresson I.

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