AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE SENÉ, CIRCA 1880

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A French giltwood salon suite
After the model by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené, Circa 1880
Comprising a canapé and four fauteuils à la Reine; the canapé with padded back within an acanthus and rope frame, flanked to the angles by an urn issuing laurel swags, above padded armrests on fluted and turned uprights, the padded seat on six feet; the armchairs en suite, each with cream silk upholstery
The canapé: 70in. (178 cm.) wide (5)

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Lot Essay

The canapé of the present suite is based on the model by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené, previously in the collections of Mrs. Anna Thomson Dodge, Rose Terrace.

The highly unusual design of this canapé reflects the influence of the designs of Richard Lalonde and Jean Delafosse (1734-1791). Lalonde's design form the 1760s for un confident orné de sculptures included in the Vème cahier d'ameublements dessinés par La Londe has the same overall form with similar urn finials. Another pen-and-ink drawing of a wall arrangement by Lalonde (in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, circa 1780) shows a canapé à confidents of related design. Delafosse's designs, first published in 1768 in Nouvelle iconologie Historique, include a number of canapés with Antique urn finials.

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