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These splendid tabourets were supplied by Michel Cresson (maître in 1740) for the Église (now Cathedrale) de Saint-Louis at Versailles. Louis XV laid the first stone for the church in 1743 and the inauguration took place in 1754. Cresson's tabourets, which bear the virtually unknown brand 'SL', were almost certainly supplied around this date (P. Verlet, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe, Paris, 1982, fig. 11). THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR (LOTS 326-335)

A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD TABOURETS

BY MICHEL CRESSON, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD TABOURETS
BY MICHEL CRESSON, MID-18TH CENTURY
Each with a serpentine-shaped seat upholstered in close-nailed violet flower-patterned velvet, the seat rails centred by flower heads, on cabriole legs headed by flowers and terminating in foliate scrolls, branded 'SL' and stamped 'M. CRESSON' (2)

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Michel Cresson, maître in 1740.

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