A PAIR OF LOUIS XV WALNUT FAUTEUILS À LA REINE

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV WALNUT FAUTEUILS À LA REINE
MID-18TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO NOGARET À LYON

Each with cartouche-shaped padded back upholstered in salmon silk damask above scrolled arms and a padded seat on cabriole legs, carved throughout with foliage and flowerheads (2)

Lot Essay

Pierre Nogaret, maître in 1745 in Lyon

The distinctive design of these chairs with their boldly outcurved arms, relates them to a group of seat furniture executed by Pierre Nogaret. This feature, as well as the exaggerated arched cresting, relates to chairs illustrated in J. Nicolay, L'Art et la Manière des Maîtres Ébénistes Français au XVIIIe Siècle, 1976, p. 341, fig. B, E and K, and and in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII Siècle, 1989, p. 605, fig. C and p. 607.