BY JEAN-BAPTISTE BOULARD, CIRCA 1770

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A SET OF TWELVE LOUIS XVI WHITE-PAINTED DINING CHAIRS
BY JEAN-BAPTISTE BOULARD, CIRCA 1770
Each with molded arched back and padded seat covered in yellow silk damask, on fluted tapering legs headed by rosettes, seven stamped J.B BOULARD to front seatrail, feet probably raised in height

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Lot Essay

Jean-Baptiste Boulard, maître in 1755.

Boulard worked almost exclusively for the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne from 1777, supplying a plethora of menuiserie to the Crown at Versailles, the Tuileries, Fontainebleau and Saint-Cloud. He collaborated with fellow menuisier Jean-Baptiste Sené (maître in 1769), with whom he shared many Royal commissions, to deliver a suite of chairs for Mme Elisabeth’s dining room at Montreuil and again in 1786, to deliver a suite of twelve dining-chairs for the salle à manger of Louis XVI at Versailles (P. Verlet, Le Mobilier Royal Français, vol.I, pp. 81-83, n.31, pl. XLV).

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