A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD BERGERES

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Los 292 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD BERGERES
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$ 8 000 – 12 000
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV GILTWOOD BERGERES
MID-18TH CENTURY
Each with a rounded backrest, carved at the cresting, shaped seat rail and above the cabriole legs with roses and trailing leaves, the backs with incised decoration, covered in cream embossed velvet, the undersides stamped 'BOUCAULT', possibly spuriously, and with old red-painted Carnegie Museum accession numbers '70.32.53' and '70.32.54'
38 in. (97 cm.) high




Provenance

With Ruth Costantino, The Connoisseur, New York.
Ailsa Mellon Bruce (1901-1969).
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh; Sotheby's, New York, May 8, 2009, lot 135.
Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above.



Literature

D.T. Owsley, 'The Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection of French Furniture', Antiques, December 1972, p. 1081, fig. 5.
D.T. Owsley, 'French Furniture: Régence to Louis XVI’, Apollo XCVIII, no. 138, August 1973, p. 85, fig. 3.



Exhibited

Pittsburgh, Carnegie Museum, accession nos. 70.32.53 and 70.32.54.
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