BY JEAN-BAPTISTE GOURDIN, CIRCA 1765

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A LOUIS XV CARVED AND GREY-PAINTED CANAPE
BY JEAN-BAPTISTE GOURDIN, CIRCA 1765
The curved padded back and cushion seat upholstered in close-nailed green damask with floral pattern, the moulded frame decorated with flowerheads and foliate scrolls, the back centred by a carved flower, above cabriole legs headed by flowers and terminating in upswept acanthus sabots, stamped twice 'I. GOURDIN', the central back leg replaced
84 in. (213 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Jean-Baptiste Gourdin, maître in 1748.

Son of Jean Gourdin, Jean-Baptiste established his workshop in the rue de Cléry near that of his father. He manufactured mostly Louis XV seat-furniture and the sinuous lines of the canapé are related to those of a fauteuil in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (inv. 7269) (G.B.Pallot, The Art of the Chair in Eighteenth Century France, Paris, 1989, P. 186).

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