A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILT-WALNUT BERGERES AUX OREILLES
PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTOR (Lot 325)
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILT-WALNUT BERGERES AUX OREILLES

CIRCA 1745, ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN AVISSE

細節
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILT-WALNUT BERGERES AUX OREILLES
Circa 1745, attributed to Jean Avisse
The arched crest rail, acanthus and C-scroll-carved arms, the back and seat covered in yellow floral silk damask, the serpentine rocaille and floral-carved seat rail on rocaille and acanthus-carved cabriole legs, inscribed in blue chalk 23(7?)2 on one and 2374 on the other, gilding refreshed (2)
來源
The Collection of Giuseppe Rossi, sold Sotheby's London, 11 March 1999, lot 728

拍品專文

Jean Avisse, maître in 1745.

Avisse (1723-1796) whose workshop was established on the Rue Cléry, first supplied tapestry makers and marchands-merciers before he could exclusively work for private clients such as the Marquise de Chabannes, the Comtesse de Fontenay and the Chevalier de Lamotte. He worked with highly skilled woodcarvers such as Jean-François Baillard, Pierre Rousseau and Claude Vinache, producing some of the finest Rococo seat furniture of the eighteenth century.

For a settee with a similar distinctive carving in the center of the seat rail, knees and feet see B.G.B. Pallot, The Art of the Chair in 18th Century France, Paris, 1989, p.278.