IN THE MANNER OF JEAN-BAPTISTE III LELARGE, CIRCA 1780

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGERE
IN THE MANNER OF JEAN-BAPTISTE III LELARGE, CIRCA 1780
The square padded back within a berried laurel-carved frame and headed by a rosette cartouche, the back, sides and loose cushion seat covered in pink and polychrome floral silk, above a leaf-tip-carved seatframe, on stop-fluted tapering legs headed by paterae and ending in toupie feet, regilt

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 20 November 1993, lot 237.

Lot Essay

Jean-Baptiste III Lelarge, maître in 1775.

After receiving his maîtrise Jean-Baptiste III quickly established a good reputation working for wealthy patrons both in France and abroad and also for the King of Portugal, although there is no mention of his name in the archives of the Royal garde-meubles. A fauteuil with similar cartouche-form back, leaf-wrapped, fluted arm-supports and turned tapering fluted legs by Lelarge is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIème Siècle, Paris, 1989, p.503.

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