A SET OF SIX LOUIS XV GILTWOOD CHAISES

Lot 39
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -05:00
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$ 80 000
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Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027492
Lot 39 | A SET OF SIX LOUIS XV GILTWOOD CHAISES
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
A SET OF SIX LOUIS XV GILTWOOD CHAISES

BY JEAN AVISSE, CIRCA 1760

Each channeled back carved with a floral cresting flanked by flowering trails, uprights enriched with acanthus leaf, the shaped seat-rail centered by three flowerheads flanked by flowering branches, cabriole legs headed by roses issuing flowering trails terminating in foliate feet, upholstered in a pink and cream silk damask, three stamped 'I AVISSE'

38 ¼ in. (97 cm.) high, 25 in. (63.5 cm.) wide, 23 in. (58.5 cm.) deep





Provenance

The Collection of the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

C. Frégnac, Belles demeures de Paris 16e-19e siècle, Paris, 1977, p. 254.

C. de Nicolay-Mazery, Visites privées, hôtels particuliers de Paris, Paris, 1999, p. 30.
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