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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
Lot 81 THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
(LOTS 77-87)

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS

BY PIERRE BERNARD, CIRCA 1768-70 AND PROBABLY CARVED BY THE SCULPTEUR CHARLES JOIGNY

Closed6 July 2012

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
BY PIERRE BERNARD, CIRCA 1768-70 AND PROBABLY CARVED BY THE SCULPTEUR CHARLES JOIGNY
Elaborately-carved overall, each with a waisted laurel-carved padded back, arms and seat covered in floral green cut-silk velvet, the leaf-wrapped arms on piastre-carved supports, above a rope-twist beaded seat, on turned tapering and fluted legs headed by rosette paterae and terminating in toupie feet, one stamped 'P.BERNARD'
40½ in. (103 cm.) high; 26¾ in. (68 cm.) wide; 23¾ in. (60.5 cm.) deep (2)

'Collection de Monsieur X', Palais d'Orsay, Paris, 14 December 1979, lot 122 (a set of six).
Ader Tajan, Paris, 29 June 1994, lot 60 (a set of six).
Piasa, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 5 April 2000, lot 65 (a set of six).
With Partridge Fine Arts, 2001, where acquired by the present owner.