The richly ornamented frame of this canape, whose sinuously undulating back was probably shaped to fit into a boiserie scheme, carved with dense floral sprays and scrolls, relates to the oeuvre of Nicolas Quinibert Foliot (maître in 1745). A suite of seat furniture by Foliot at Waddesdon, comprising six fauteuils and two bergeres, originally supplied to the duc de Penthièvre for the château de Chanteloup, features very similar carving and profiles, especially the distinctive flower-filled cartouches centring the seat-rails and crestings (illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt-Bronzes, London, 1974, vol. II, p. 596, cat. 127).

Nicolas Quinibert Foliot (1706-1776) was one of the most accomplished menuisiers of the Louis XV period and undertook numerous Royal commissions, including seat furniture supplied to Louis XV at Versailles and a celebrated group of fauteuils of superb quality delivered to Louis XV's daughter Louise Elisabeth, for one of the palaces at Palma following her marriage to don Philippe, the Duke of Parma (illustrated in B. Pallot, The Art of the Eighteenth Century Chair in France, Paris, 1989, pp. 146-8).