A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGERE

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGERE
BY SULPICE BRIZARD

The arched back, arms, squab-cushion and bowed seat upholstered in close-nailed blue velvet, the channelled frame with ribbon-twist and lappeted leaves terminating in a ball issuing from acanthus at the arms, the seat-rail with a guilloche band, on stop-fluted turned tapering legs with ball feet, stamped S. BRIZARD, re-gilt

Lot Essay

Sulpice Brizard, maître in 1762

The 'Etruscan' scrolled arm-upright of this bergère is a distinct feature of Brizard's oeuvre and appears on a pair of fauteuils in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 119

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