BY PIERRE BERNARD, CIRCA 1770

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CHAIRS
BY PIERRE BERNARD, CIRCA 1770
Each with rectangular back and bow-fronted seat covered in watered pale yellow silk, the moulded rails decorated to the angles with foliate patterae, the seat-rail with rounded angles carved with flowerhead, on turned fluted legs terminating in sabots, one chair stamped 'P BERNARD' once, the other stamped twice (2)

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拍品专文

Pierre Bernard, maître in 1766.

With their bold mouldings and strong design, these chairs illustrate the skill of the menuisier Pierre Bernard. Originating from a cabinet-makers family, Bernard decided to work as a menuisier and was based in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Little is know about his career, but he seems to have had a prosperous clientèle including the marquis de Laborde, one of the most important patrons of the third quarter of the 18th Century.

The design of the upper angles of the back are an unusual feature and related to a model with canted angles frequently employed by Pierre Bernard wich appears on chairs by him at Waddesdon Manor (illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor. Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, Fribourg, 1974, pp. 608-611) and on a fateuil in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (illustrated in G. Janneau, Les Sièges, Paris, 1967, p. 123).