Lot Essay
Jean-Jacques Pothier, maître in 1750
A fauteuil by Pothier with almost identical carving is illustrated B. Pallot, l'Art du Siège au xviii.e siècle en France, Paris, 1987, p.208
The Grecian-style husk-garlanded 'Venus' scallop-shell cartouche and cabochon-capped legs feature on a related bergère chair which forms part of the celebrated suite of seat-furniture commissioned in 1765 from the menuisier Louis Delanois (d. 1792) by Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, while serving as George III's ambassador to the Court of Louis XV (see: E. Eriksen, L. Delanois, Paris, 1968, pl. XXIII).
A fauteuil by Pothier with almost identical carving is illustrated B. Pallot, l'Art du Siège au xviii.e siècle en France, Paris, 1987, p.208
The Grecian-style husk-garlanded 'Venus' scallop-shell cartouche and cabochon-capped legs feature on a related bergère chair which forms part of the celebrated suite of seat-furniture commissioned in 1765 from the menuisier Louis Delanois (d. 1792) by Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond, while serving as George III's ambassador to the Court of Louis XV (see: E. Eriksen, L. Delanois, Paris, 1968, pl. XXIII).