MID-18TH CENTURY

Details

A LOUIS XV GILTWOOD BERGERE
MID-18TH CENTURY
With rectangular arched padded back in conforming reeded frame carved with trailing oak leaves with padded scroll sides and loose cushion seat above a similarly carved seat rail on cabriole legs ending in scroll toes, upholstered in 18th century mint floral silk
37 ½ in. (95.5 cm.) high, overall

Provenance

Acquired from Marcel Bissey, Paris.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A similar fauteuil with comparable carving and stamped by Foliot was delivered for Marie-Antoinette at Choisy, see G. Janneau, Le Siège en France du Moyen-Age à nos Jours, Paris, 1948, pl. 188. An armchair identical to the present lot, and presumably its pair, was sold Ader-Tajan, Paris, 7 June 1993, lot 29.

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