Lot 31
31
A SET OF TWELVE FRENCH GRAY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DINING CHAIRS
A SET OF TWELVE FRENCH GRAY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DINING CHAIRS

AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE SENE, 20TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TWELVE FRENCH GRAY-PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT DINING CHAIRS
AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-BAPTISTE-CLAUDE SENE, 20TH CENTURY
In the Louis XVI style, each with arched padded back and seat covered in cream cut-velvet on stop-fluted tapering legs (12)
Provenance
Acquired from Jacques Perrin, Paris, 1991.

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Lot Essay

These chairs are based on the model made by Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené for King Louis XVI's dining-room at Versailles. Sené delivered 28 chairs in 1786, which were painted with white varnish and upholstered by Capin. A pair of chairs from the set was sold Park-Bernet, New York, 9 January 1960, lot 336 and is illustrated in P. Verlet, French Royal Furniture, New York, 1963, p. 172, pl. 33. A further 22 nearly identical chairs with slightly plainer feet were made for the dining room at the same time by Jean-Baptiste Boulard.

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