CANAPE D`EPOQUE LOUIS XVI

Lot 96
23.11.2021 10:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 96 | CANAPE D'EPOQUE LOUIS XVI
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CANAPE D'EPOQUE LOUIS XVI

ESTAMPILLES DE FRANCOIS-CLAUDE MENANT ET NICOLAS POIRION, DERNIER QUART DU XVIIIe SIECLE

En noyer mouluré, sculpté et doré, le dossier centré d'une coquille symétrique, les accotoirs munis de manchettes reposant sur des consoles à décor de frise de piastres et d'une feuille d'acanthe, la ceinture centrée d'un cartouche à décor de fleurs et de frises d'entrelacs, reposant sur des pieds en console surmontés d'une feuille d'acanthe, estampillé à deux reprises FC MENANT sur la traverse avant et estampillé N. PRN..., la couverture de soie rose à motifs floral

François Claude Menant, reçu maître en 1786

Nicolas Poirion, reçu à l'Académie de Saint-Luc en 1751

H.: 91,5 cm. (36 in.) ; L.: 131 cm. (51 1⁄2 in.)







Provenance

Collection Seligman, Paris;

Thelma Chrysler Foy ; sa vente Parke-Bernet, New York, 22-23 mai 1959, lot 719.





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A LOUIS XVI GILT-BEECHWOOD SOFA STAMPED BY FRANCOIS CLAUDE MENANT AND NICOLAS POIRION, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
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