A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGRE

ATTRIBUTED TO LOUIS-CHARLES CARPENTIER, CIRCA 1775

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGRE
Attributed to Louis-Charles Carpentier, Circa 1775
The molded curved guilloche crestrail centered with ribbon-tied roses and carved with trailing rose branches, above a curved padded back, armrests, and loose cushion seat upholstered in a dusty rose floral pattern cut-velvet, the volute handrests carved with twisted-ribbon above acanthus-sheathed uprights, the back carved with guilloche and the seat-rail with guilloche and twisted-ribbon, centered by an acanthus clasp issuing rose branches, on tapering stop-fluted legs headed by square blocks carved with paterae, the seat-rail with ink inscription R475, and indistinctly inscribed..... cabinet

Provenance

A Private Collection, sold Christie's New York, 21 May 1996, lot 326 ($79,500).

Lot Essay

Louis-Charles Carpentier, matre in 1752

This exceptional bergre which is decorated completely in the round, can be attributed to Carpentier on the basis of the distinctive carving found on the side and back seat-rails, which appears on a suite of seat furniture stamped by him in a private collection.

R475 inscribed on the underside of the seat-rail of this bergre may, conceivably, be a Rothschild inventory mark.

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