A LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL A LA REINE

BY JEAN-JACQUES POTHIER, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL A LA REINE
BY JEAN-JACQUES POTHIER, MID-18TH CENTURY
With a cartouche-shaped upholstered backrest carved with ribbon-tied laurel leaves at the cresting, with padded armrests on raised volute supports, the serpentine seatrail similarly carved, on carved cabriole legs headed by bellflowers, stamped twice I. POTHIER and inscribed XXII, the drop-in seat inscribed twice XXI
41 in. (104 cm.) high, 30 in. (66 cm.) wide, 24½ in. (62 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous Sale; Sotheby's Park-Bernet, New York, 4 May 1984, lot 51.
Anonymous Sale; Sotheby's, New York, 3 May 1986, lot 142.

Lot Essay

Jean-Jacques Pothier, maître in 1750

The present armchair is en suite with a set of seat furniture, formerly in the collection of Henry Ford II, sold Christie's New York, November 12 1981, lot 215. This suite was purchased by Lily & Edmund J. Safra and was sold again at Sotheby's, New York, 3 November 2005, lot 172. The suite comprised a set of six fauteuils à la Reine and a canape, and had been exhibited at the Exhibition International du Cadre du XV au XX Siecle, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, April 1931, lot 214. It appears that it was purchased at that time by Henry Ford II.

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