Sale 1033
New York
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3 April 2002
Price realised
USD 1,762
Estimate
A PAIR OF EARLY LOUIS XV STAINED-BEECHWOOD CHAISES, Circa 1740, originally painted, each with shaped foliate-carved crestrail over a cartouche-form caned back and seat above a similarly-carved serpentine seatrail on cabriole legs, each with scored number to underside XIII and XVI and bearing stamp M. CRESSON, later blocks to underside (2)
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Michel Cresson maître, 30 August 1740.
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