A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CANAPE
Lot 181

A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CANAPE

BY LOUIS CHARLES CARPENTIER

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GBP 29,875

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CANAPE
by Louis Charles Carpentier
The en suite with the preceding lot, the rectangular padded back, seat and arm-supports upholstered à chassis in green striped silk velvet, the back carved with berried laurel-leaves, stiff-leaves and beading, the scrolled arms with panelled acanthus-carved terminals, the sides with trailing laurel leaves, the seatrail carved with rosettes and entrelacs, on stop-fluted acanthus-carved tapering legs carved with chandelles and headed by panelled rosettes, the seat frame inscribed in ink three times 'Fond No. 2'
55 in. (140 cm.) wide

Possibly supplied in 1779 to the duchesse de Villeroy, the sister of the duc d'Aumont, for her hôtel in the rue de l'Université, Paris.

Specialist note

Louis Charles Carpentier, maître in 1787.

Please see footnote to previous lot.