POSSIBLY BY ANTOINE GAILLARD, CIRCA 1780

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI OIL-GILT WALNUT FAUTEUILS
POSSIBLY BY ANTOINE GAILLARD, CIRCA 1780
The rectangular back and bowed seat with bead and reel and waterleaf borders and covered with blue silk damask, the arm supports with entwined ropetwists, fluted tapering legs

Provenance

Mrs. Robert Lehman; Sotheby's, New York, 18 November 2010, lot 46 ($12,500).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The delicate rope carving and distinctive profile of the incurved arm supports relate these elegant fauteuils to an example by Antoine Gaillard (maître in 1781) illustrated in J. Nicolay, L'Art et la Manière des Maître Ebénistes au XVILLE Siècle, Paris, 1976, p. 190.

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