CIRCA 1735

Details

AN EARLY LOUIS XV GILT-WALNUT FAUTEUIL
CIRCA 1735
The cartouche back headed by an assymmetric rocaille clasp with trailing flowers, the corners carved with foliate ruffled clasps, the padded back, arms and serpentine seat upholstereed a chassis in pink floral cut velvet, with outswept arms above a seatrail further carved with foliage and an assymmetric central rail ruffled clasp, on shell-headed foliate cabriole legs ending in ruffled toes, regilt

Provenance

with Kraemer et Cie., Paris.

Lot Essay

This grandly scaled and dynamically carved fauteuil is almost certainly ensuite with a pair of fauteuils with identical idiosyncratic ruffled carving to the crest and seatrails in the Musée du Louvre and illustrated in B.G.B. Pallot, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, 1993, Vol. 2, p. 58, pl. 16.

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