Lot Essay
Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené, fournisseur de la Garde-Meuble de la Couronne, maître in 1769.
The unusual Grecian treatment of the legs 'à cannelures torses' first appears in the sculpteur Jean-Louis Prieur's designs for seat-furniture, supplied to the King of Poland in 1766 and executed by Louis Delanois between 1767-8. Shortly afterwards, in 1770 Delanois supplied a further suite for the salon carré du pavillon de Mme du Barry at Louveciennes. A further example of this leg, also by Delanois, features on a chaise en cabriolet in the Musée du Louvre (illustrated in Nouvelles Acquisitions du Département des Objets d'Art, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1990-4, p.143, no.51).
The unusual Grecian treatment of the legs 'à cannelures torses' first appears in the sculpteur Jean-Louis Prieur's designs for seat-furniture, supplied to the King of Poland in 1766 and executed by Louis Delanois between 1767-8. Shortly afterwards, in 1770 Delanois supplied a further suite for the salon carré du pavillon de Mme du Barry at Louveciennes. A further example of this leg, also by Delanois, features on a chaise en cabriolet in the Musée du Louvre (illustrated in Nouvelles Acquisitions du Département des Objets d'Art, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1990-4, p.143, no.51).