Live Auction 2473500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe
A LOUIS XV CREAM-PAINTED CANAPE
Lot 186 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE MANHATTAN RESIDENCE (LOTS 186-187)

A LOUIS XV CREAM-PAINTED CANAPE

BY ETIENNE MEUNIER, MID-18TH CENTURY

Closed20 October 2011

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A LOUIS XV CREAM-PAINTED CANAPE
BY ETIENNE MEUNIER, MID-18TH CENTURY
With a floral-carved back above incurved sides and similarly-carved seat rails and feet, upholstered in pale blue velvet, stamped E MEVNIER to center of inside of rear seat rail and inscribed in red paint EE-9
46 in. (117 cm.) wide

Almost certainly Henry Ford II, Detroit.

Specialist note

Almost certainly from the Collection of Henry Ford II, whose collection bears identical red-painted numbers, much of which was subsequently sold at Sotheby's New York, 25 February 1978 and Sotheby's New York, 26 January 1991.