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    17 - 18 November 1999

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    • A SUITE OF LOUIS XVI WHITE PAI
    Lot 635

    A SUITE OF LOUIS XVI WHITE PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SEAT-FURNITURE

    STAMPED I.GOURDIN, CIRCA 1780

    Price realised

    USD 112,500

    Estimate

    USD 100,000 - USD 150,000

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    A SUITE OF LOUIS XVI WHITE PAINTED AND PARCEL-GILT SEAT-FURNITURE
    Stamped I.GOURDIN, Circa 1780
    Comprising eight fauteuils and a canap, each with arched padded back, bowed seat and arms covered in polychrome floral-decorated cream silk, the ribbon-twist frame centered to the toprail by a foliate spray and to the seat-rail by a bound floral spray, on fluted turned tapering legs, five fauteuils and the canape stamped once I GOURDIN, one fauteuil stamped twice I GOURDIN, two fauteuils with variations and not stamped but bearing a stencil 57354, re-decorated (9)

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    Lot Essay

    Jean-Baptiste Gourdin, matre in 1748.

    Son of Jean Gourdin, Jean-Baptiste established his workshop in the rue de Clry near that of his father. He manufactured mostly Louis XV seat-furntiure. This suite is closely related to a fauteuil in the Muse des arts dcoratifs, Paris (inv. 7269) (G.B.B. Pallot, The Art of the Chair in Eighteenth Century France, Paris, 1989, p.186).

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