A LOUIS XV BEECHWOOD BERGERE
A LOUIS XV BEECHWOOD BERGERE

BY JACQUES CHENEVAT

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A LOUIS XV BEECHWOOD BERGERE
By Jacques Chenevat
With channelled serpentine frame, the back, arms and squab-cushion covered in dark red cut velvet, the shaped apron centred by flowers, on cabriole legs headed by flowers and with foliate carved feet, stamped to the back seat-rail 'I.CHENEVAT'

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Jacques Chenevat, matre in 1763.

Established 'A la Croix d'or' on rue de Clry for about ten years, Jacques Chenevat worked principally in the Louis XV style. Amongst his most famous pieces was a large Louis XV fauteuil for the rserves du Garde-Meuble and a bergre from the collection of Paul Dustat (Salverte, Les Ebenistes du XVIIIe Sicle, Paris, 1953, p. 55).
A related bergre stamped Chenevat, from the collection of M. Ricard Pnard y Fernandez, was sold, Sotheby's London, 30 April 1965, lot 204.

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