BY JEAN-BAPTISTE CRESSON, CIRCA 1750

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV BEECH SIDE CHAIRS A LA REINE
BY JEAN-BAPTISTE CRESSON, CIRCA 1750
Each with moulded, caned back à échancrure centrale with floret cresting, above caned seat with floral-carved front-rails, the conforming cabriole legs terminating in scrolls, the rails of one marked '6' the other '12', both stamped 'I-B.CRESSON'
Jean-Baptiste Cresson, maître in 1741 (2)

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The Cressons were a family of Menuisiers operating from premises in the rue de Clry, Paris. The first member of the dynasty to become matre was Charles Cresson in 1720; the last being his great nephew Nicolas Michel Cresson in 1770 (Pierre Kjellberg, Le Mobillier Franais du XVIII Sicle, Paris, 2002, pp. 230-241).

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