Lot Essay
These chairs, with their richly-carved sides and squared foliate crestrail, are highly unusual. A virtually identical pair stamped Boulard are illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, Le mobilier franais du XVIIIe sicle, Paris, 1989, p. 105, and were reputedly part of a suite of seating furniture delivered for Marie-Antoinette's theater at the Petit Trianon of Versailles.
A very similar suite comprising a pair of bergeres and a pair of chaises stamped Boulard, with a slightly different profile of the crestrail and with finials, was sold Christie's Monaco, 15 June 1997. A further pair of chairs of this variation but stamped Bauve was sold Christie's Monaco, 15 June 1996 lot 77.
A very similar suite comprising a pair of bergeres and a pair of chaises stamped Boulard, with a slightly different profile of the crestrail and with finials, was sold Christie's Monaco, 15 June 1997. A further pair of chairs of this variation but stamped Bauve was sold Christie's Monaco, 15 June 1996 lot 77.