CIRCA 1780, EACH STAMPED I.B.SENE

細節

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI CREAM-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT FAUTEUILS
Circa 1780, each stamped I.B.SENE
Each with an oval guilloche carved back centered by a lyre capped by a sunburst female mask, the padded arms with scrolled leaf decorated terminals and acanthus-wrapped baluster supports on fluted blocks, flanking a bowed upholstered seat and further guilloche carved rail, on rosette capped turned and fluted tapering legs, redecorated (2)

來源

Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 18 May 1989, lot 92.
Anonymous sale, Christie's London, 5 December 1994, lot 509 (£19,550). The John Reid Collection, sold Christie's London, 17-18 December 1998, lot 132 (£28,750).

拍品專文

Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené, maître in 1769.

The son of the menuisier Claude I Sené, J.B.C.Sené was established in the rue du Cléry at the sign of the Gros Chapelet. In 1785, he was appointed fournisseur du Garde-Meuble de la Couronne alongside Jean-Baptiste Boulard, and he gradually supplanted the latter to become amongst the most celebrated menuisiers of the Louis XVI period. Royal patronage dominated the vast majority of his mature career, and he was responsible for supplying seat-furniture to the King and Queen at Saint-Cloud, Versailles, Compiègne, Fontainebleau etc.

These elegant fauteuils, with lyre-form back surmounted by sunburst Apollo masks, typify the elegant, restrained neoclassical taste of the 1780s, which was popular with a number of menuisiers. Related chairs with lyre-form backs by Georges Jacob are illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Les Mâitres Ebénistes du XVIII^., Paris, 1989, p. 425.