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BY CLAUDE I SENE, CIRCA 1780, THE TAPESTRY PROBABLY BEAUVAIS
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A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XVI GILT WALNUT FAUTEUILS
BY CLAUDE I SENE, CIRCA 1780, THE TAPESTRY PROBABLY BEAUVAIS
Each with an arched rectangular back, padded arms and seat covered in close-nailed tapestry depicting flowering torches, musical attributes and laurel-wreathed bow-tied hats, the guilloche-carved back with foliate finials, above foliate-wrapped arms and curved supports, and a conformingly-carved seatrail, on turned tapering fluted legs headed by rosette paterae and terminating in toupie feet, stamped 'G.SENE'
37½ in. (95 cm.) high; 27½ in. (70 cm.) wide; 21¾ in. (55 cm.) deep (4)
BY CLAUDE I SENE, CIRCA 1780, THE TAPESTRY PROBABLY BEAUVAIS
Each with an arched rectangular back, padded arms and seat covered in close-nailed tapestry depicting flowering torches, musical attributes and laurel-wreathed bow-tied hats, the guilloche-carved back with foliate finials, above foliate-wrapped arms and curved supports, and a conformingly-carved seatrail, on turned tapering fluted legs headed by rosette paterae and terminating in toupie feet, stamped 'G.SENE'
37½ in. (95 cm.) high; 27½ in. (70 cm.) wide; 21¾ in. (55 cm.) deep (4)
Provenance
Jean Le Maître de La Martinière (d.1783), château du Marais, by descent to his niece, Adélaîde La Live de la Briche, née Prévost (1755-1844), to her daughter, Comtesse Caroline Molé, née de La Live (1781-1845), to her grand-daughter, Clotilde de la Ferté-Meun, Duchesse de Noailles (1831-1931), to the Hôtel de Maisons, 51 rue de l'Université, Paris.
Christie's, New York, 26 October 1994, lot 100, where acquired by the present owner ($173,000).
Christie's, New York, 26 October 1994, lot 100, where acquired by the present owner ($173,000).
Literature
P. Verlet, French Furniture and Interior Decoration of the 18th Century, London, 1967, p. 17-18, fig. 12 (part of the suite illustrated in situ at the Hôtel de Maisons).
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
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Giles Forster
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