Lot 84
84
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY BERGERE
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY BERGERE

STAMPED J.B.B. DEMAY TWICE, CIRCA 1815

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND PARCEL-GILT MAHOGANY BERGERE
Stamped J.B.B. DEMAY twice, circa 1815
The U-form padded back and squared seat mounted to the panelled back with a lyre flanked by seated sphinx and beneath an Imperial eagle, with a butterfly and further scrolling rinceaux to either side, upon X-frame legs joined by a baluster-turned stretcher, upon parcel-gilt lion's paw feet with later sunken casters, with the printed paper label SYPHER & CO/NEW YORK inscribed 211/272, unupholstered

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Jean-Baptiste Bernard Demay, maitre in 1784

Jean-Baptiste Bernard Demay worked as a chairmaker on the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine and then the rue de Cléry, throughout the Louis XVI and Empire periods. He is known to have created chairs for Marie-Antoinette. The current chair, of extremely rare form, is designed in the antique style with its x-frame curule form, lyre and sphinx motifs and lion's paw feet.

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