FOURTEEN LOUIS XV STYLE GILTWOOD DINING CHAIRS

THE SAVONNERIE COVERS MID-18TH CENTURY AND RE-USED, THE CHAIR FRAMES OF A LATER DATE

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FOURTEEN LOUIS XV STYLE GILTWOOD DINING CHAIRS
The Savonnerie covers mid-18th Century and re-used, the chair frames of a later date
Each with a shaped rectangular back, the toprail and serpentine seat-rail carved with flowers on cabriole legs similarly carved at the knees, on scroll feet, covered in close-nailed early 18th Century Savonnerie depicting flower-filled baskets to the backs and the seats with floral swags against a sky ground, two chairs with taller backs with Savonnerie of a slightly differing pattern (14)

Provenance

Watel de Haynan Collection, Paris.

Lot Essay

The floral seat-covers on these these dining chairs are close in character to a panel with finely executed flowers in the manner of the Savonnerie, however woven at Rochechouart (Haute-Vienne) in 1775, and illustrated in P. Verlet, The James A. Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Savonnerie, London, 1982, p. 138, fig. 81. The panel is signed by the itinerant craftsman Varlet, a deserter from the Savonnerie factory, who later was selected by Clement Augustus, Elector of Cologne and brother of the Emperor Charles VII to run a version of a factory producing Savonnerie at Bonn.

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