A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS

CIRCA 1780, BY JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE SENÉ

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI WHITE-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS
Circa 1780, by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené
Each with oval guilloche-carved back centered by a pierced lyre below a sunburst mask, the padded armrests and bowed seat covered in black silk and with guilloche apron on turned tapering fluted legs and turned feet, each stamped I.B. SENE
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené, dit l'ainé, maître in 1769 (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 18 May 1989, lot 92.
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 5 December 1994, lot 509.

Lot Essay

These elegant fauteuils with lyre-form back surmounted by sunburst Apollo masks, typify the elegant, restrained neoclassical taste of the 1780s, which was popular with a number of menuisiers. Related chairs with lyre-form backs by Georges Jacob are illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Les Mâitres Ebénistes du XVIII^e, Paris, 1989, p. 425.

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