A LATE LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL

Lot 29
21.09.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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ID 812947
Lot 29 | A LATE LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL
Estimate value
£ 100 000 – 150 000
A LATE LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUIL

BY JEAN BOUCAULT, CIRCA 1770

The shaped pearl-moulded back with foliate decoration issuing two padded arms terminating in scrolls on spirally fluted supports wrapped in acanthus leaves, the shaped seat-rail with foliate and pearl moulding on four spirally-fluted tapering legs wrapped in acanthus leaves, on toupie feet, the padded back, arms and seat cushion upholstered in green velvet, stamped twice 'J. BOUCAULT', with two crowned W inventory brands for the château de Versailles

37 1/2 in. (95 cm.) high; 27 in. (69 cm.) wide; 30 1/2 in. (77 cm.) deep





Provenance

Delivered in 1783 by Claude-François Capin to Louis Charles-Auguste Le Tonnelier, baron de Breteuil, for his apartment in château de Versailles, possibly furnishing the apartment when previously occupied by the duc de Choiseul.

Anonymous sale, Christophe Morel, Drouot, Paris, 21 May 2014, lot 247 (as Louis XVI Style).





Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

C. Baulez, Il Luigi Il Mobile francese dal Louis XVI all'Art Deco, Milan 1981, p. 11.

F.P. Victoria and Son, The Masterchair, Makers Art, France 1710-1800, Galerie Victoria, New York, 1984, n° 24.

B.G.B. Pallot, L'Art du siège au XVIIIème siècle en France, 1987, p. 192.

C. Bremer-David, Decorative Arts. The J. Paul Getty Museum, 1993, p. 67.

W.-R. Newton, L'espace du Roi. La Cour de France au château de Versailles, 1682-1789, 2000, pp. 451-452.



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