Live Auction 18793The Collector: Property from Four American Collections
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD MARQUISES
Lot 707 The Property of Helen Fioratti: L’Antiquaire & The Connoisseur, New York

A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD MARQUISES

CIRCA 1780

Closed16 October 2019

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USD 17,500

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD MARQUISES
CIRCA 1780
The padded back and seat raised on spiraling fluted legs, upholstered in peach silk velvet, with red-painted numbers to the undersides, 70.32.59 or 70.32.69

Ailsa Mellon Bruce (for both marquises).
The Frick Pittsburgh (for one of the pair).



Specialist note

Although unstamped, the sophisticated carving and elegant proportions of these marquises would point to the work of one of the most accomplished menuisiers of the Louis XVI period such as Georges Jacob (maître in 1765) or Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené (maître in 1769). The distinctive spiral-fluted legs of these marquises are a particular leitmotif of both Jacob and Sené (for instance on a suite supplied by Sené to the Grand Cabinet of Marie-Antoinette at Saint Cloud, illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, pp. 812-3) or on a fauteuil and veilleuse by Jacob illustrated op. cit., pp. 414 and 423.