BY ANTOINE NICOLAS DELAPORTE, CIRCA 1775

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL A COIFFER
BY ANTOINE NICOLAS DELAPORTE, CIRCA 1775
The pelta-shaped padded back, arms and seat covered in green floral silk damask with musical trophies and putti, the dished cresting with acanthus sprays and foliate borders, the scrolled channelled arms with upspring acanthus above a foliate wraped seat-rail, on turned tapering stop-fluted legs, stamped 'N.DELAPORTE', regilt

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Antoine Nicolas Delaporte, maître in 1762.

This model of chair is known as a fauteuil à coiffer on acccount of its distinctive toprail, which was shaped to allow for the cumbersome scale of 18th century wigs. A bergère of closely related form, possibly from the same suite, is in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (G. de Beallaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, Vol. 11, Fribourg, 1974, no.129, pp.606-7). A further fauteuil à coiffer by J. Audry (maître in 1777) from the collection of Baronne Leonino (née Rothschild), which displays very similar sculpture, is illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, Louis XVI Furniture, London, 1960, fig.185.