ATTRIBUTED TO FRANCOIS HERVE, CIRCA 1790

The present lot relates closely to the pair of bergères, within a suite, supplied by Holland and Daguerre and made by François Hervé, for George, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758 - 1834) for the Countess Spencer's Dressing Room at Althorp (see: Treasures from Althorp, Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1970, fig. 16). The Spencer pair, also with parcel-gilt and white decoration was sold in these rooms, 'The Spencer House Sale', 8 July 2010, lot 1051 (£44,450 inc. prem.). Hervé supplied considerable amounts of furniture, specifically for the Chinese Drawing Room at Carlton House, to the Prince of Wales (later George IV), suites of upholstered and caned seat-furniture to the 5th Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire and unspecified work to the 5th Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire.