A LOUIS XV GREEN, WHITE AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED ‘LIT A LA TURQUE’

Lot 4
21.09.2022 14:00UTC +00:00
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Prix de départ
£ 40 000
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Lot 4 | A LOUIS XV GREEN, WHITE AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED ‘LIT A LA TURQUE’
Valeur estimée
£ 40 000 – 60 000
A LOUIS XV GREEN, WHITE AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED ‘LIT A LA TURQUE’

ATTRIBUTED TO MICHEL CRESSON, CIRCA 1750

The head and footboard with serpentine and scrolling toprails carved with flowers and centred by a rocaille cartouche, the side-rails conformingly carved, on eight short cabriole legs with scrolling feet, upholstered in green velvet with two bolster cushions

45 in. (114.5 cm.) high; 102 1/2 in. (260 cm.) wide; 61 in. (155 cm.) deep





Provenance

Louis II du Bouchet, marquis de Sourches (1711-1788), Grand Provost of France, Lieutenant General of the Royal Armies, château d'Abondant (Eure-et-Loir),

Thence by descent in the château d'Abondant until 1902.



Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

B. Pons, Le grand salon du château d'Abondant, Revue du Louvre, 1991.

B.G.B. Pallot, Le Mobilier du Musée du Louvre, Dijon, 1993, p. 66-68.



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