STAMPED COURTOIS, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XVI WHITE-PAINTED COIFFEUSE
STAMPED COURTOIS, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The scrolling back filled with caning above a bowed seat on stop-fluted round tapering legs, covered in a close-nailed brown leather, with stencilled 52 and inscribed 62258 in blue chalk, redecorated

Provenance

Gustave Pierre Bader, New York and Paris; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 26-27 April 1957, lot 132 ($550).

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Lot Essay

Nicolas Simon Courtois, mâitre in 1766.

Active until the Revolution, Courtois specialized in high quality neoclassic seating furniture which is often characterized by its severe lines and restrained carving (see P. Kjellberg, Le mobilier français du XVIII siècle, Paris, 1989, pp. 193-194).

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