A LOUIS XV GILTWOOD CANAPÉ EN CORBEILLE

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A LOUIS XV GILTWOOD CANAPÉ EN CORBEILLE
MID-18TH CENTURY

With serpentine padded back, sides and loose cushion seat within a moulded foliate-carved frame enhanced with flowerblossoms, on similarly carved cabriole legs ending in scroll toes, upholstered in gold cut-velvet (re-gilt)-91in. (231cm.) wide

Lot Essay

A canapé of similar proportions and outline by Jean-Baptiste Tilliard is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (illustrated in The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984, p. 229, no. 140).