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A LOUIS XV BEECH BERGERE
Lot 182 THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 181 & 182)

A LOUIS XV BEECH BERGERE

BY LOUIS DELANOIS, CIRCA 1765

Closed17 March 2011

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A LOUIS XV BEECH BERGERE
BY LOUIS DELANOIS, CIRCA 1765
The shaped chanelled and foliate carved back with a floral cresting above scrolled and a loose cushion, covered in brass-nailed navy blue chinese patterned silk, on short floral-carved cabriole legs, stamped L.DELANOIS, previously decorated
38½ in. (98 cm.) high; 29 in. (74 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76 cm.) deep

Anonymous sale, Christie's, Paris, 25 June 2008, lot 311, where acquired by the present owner.

Specialist note

Louis Delanois, maître in 1761.
With its 'accôtoirs en coup de fouet' and forme violonnée, this bergère relates closely to several examples illustrated by S. Eriksen in Louis Delanois, menuisier en sièges (1731-1792), Paris, 1968, Pls. VII and XVIII.
Delanois's famed patrons included the Comte d'Artois (future Charles X, King of France between 1824-1830), the prince de Condé, and King Stanislas II of Poland, as well as marchands-merciers, with the majority of these commissions having been recorded in the menuisier's Livre des Ouvrages et Fournitures de Meubles faits à crédit, (1761-1777), now in the Paris city Archives.