BY PIERRE-FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH CORBISIER, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
BY PIERRE-FRANÇOIS-JOSEPH CORBISIER, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each carved overall with entrelac, the arm terminals and down square supports carved with foliage, on spiral fluted legs and toupie feet, upholstered in light blue silk, stamped 'P.F.J. CORBISIER', one armchair with a label inscribed 'Pour Monsieur le Marquis de Nells'
36 ¾ in. (93.5 cm.) high; 22 7/8 in. (58 cm.) wide; 19 ¼ in. (49 cm.) deep

Provenance

Louis-Joseph de Mailly, marquis de Nesle (1744-1810), according to 18th century label inscribed 'pour Monsieur le marquis de Nells'

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Lot Essay

Pierre-François-Joseph Corbisier, maître in 1768.
According to an 18th century label visible on the seat-rail of one of the fauteuils, this set of seat furniture (lots 9 and 10) was commissioned for Louis-Joseph de Mailly, marquis de Nesle (1744-1810). Son of Louis de Mailly (1696-1767) premier écuyer de Madame la Dauphine, he was an intimate of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette and accompanied the King from Versailles on the 17th July 1791 to his visit to the Hôtel de Ville in Paris following to the fall of the Bastille, where the King accepted to wear the tricolored cocarde.

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