A LOUIS XV GREY-PAINTED CANED FAUTEUIL RASER

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XV GREY-PAINTED CANED FAUTEUIL RASER
Mid-18th Century
The serpentine crestrail centered by a rose clasp above a caned hinged headrest and a serpentine rectangular caned back and oval seat flanked molded down-swept arm supports the serpentine seatrail carved with a similar floral clasp on molded cabriole legs, feet tipped

來源

Jacques Seligmann, Paris
Philippe Weiner, Paris, illustrated in the catalogue of his collection privately printed by Seligmann
David-Weill Collection, Paris
Fabre Collection, Paris

展覽

New York, Frederick P. Victoria and Son, The Master Chair-Maker's Art: France 1710-1800, 1984, cat. 21 (also illustrated on the cover).

拍品專文

This extraordinary chair, know as a sige or fauteuil raser, which retains traces of its original polychrome decoration, is a rare example of a Louis XV mechanical chair. Its hinged ratcheted back enabled the head of the person being coiffed or shaved to be tilted back and the addition of a fifth leg at the back gave it extra stability. Another unusual feature, probably to allow greater movement to the sitter, is the fact that the arm-rests rise straight up from the front legs, rather than more usually being set back along the seat-rail. These types of chairs were recorded both in barbers or hairdressers boutiques, as well as in private residences (Nicole de Reynis, Le mobilier domestique, vol. I, Paris, 1987, p. 45).