CIRCA 1740, POSSIBLY SOUTH GERMAN

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AN EARLY LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL
CIRCA 1740, POSSIBLY SOUTH GERMAN
The padded back, arms and serpentine seat upholstered à chassis in pink floral cut velvet

Provenance

With Kraemer et Cie., Paris.
Property from the Estate of Reginald F. Lewis; Christie's, New York, 19 October 2007, lot 304.

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Lot Essay

This grandly scaled and dynamically carved fauteuil is almost certainly en suite with a pair of fauteuils with identical idiosyncratic ruffled carving to the crest and seat rails in the Musée du Louvre and illustrated in B.G.B. Pallot, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, 1993, Vol. 2, p. 58, pl. 16.

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