A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGERES
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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGERES

BY JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNARD DEMAY, CIRCA 1785

已結束2024年4月17日

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGERES
BY JEAN-BAPTISTE BERNARD DEMAY, CIRCA 1785
Each with arched padded back within carved frame, the crest rail with floral entwined musical trophy issuing trailing summer flowers, scroll arms with acanthus, loose seat cushion on circular tapering legs carved as arrow-filled quivers headed by paterae, one inscribed in red crayon and in pencil '47272' to underside, each stamped 'J.B.B. DEMAY'
39 in. (99 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's Parke-Bernet, Monaco, 26-27 May 1980, lot 713.
Property from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin N. Groves; Christie's, New York, 16 October 1988, lot 113.

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Jean-Baptiste Bernard Demay, maître in 1784.

A suite of seat furniture stamped 'JBB Demay' including a bergère with related crisply carved trophy and trailing flowerheads is illustrated G. Janneau, Les Sièges, Paris, 1977, pl. XXXVIII.

First based on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine before moving his workshop to rue de Cléry, Jean-Baptiste Bernard Demay (d. 1848) is chiefly remembered for his celebrated model of chaise en montgolfière. He is recorded to have worked for the most illustrious clients at the time, including Queen Marie-Antoinette. For examples of his elegant Louis XVI productions now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, and the Musée Carnavalet in Paris, as well as in the château de Versailles see P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIème siècle, Paris, 1998, pp. 248-249. Demay's workshop continued operations during the Revolution, when he changed his stamp to 'DEMAY RUE DE CLERY,' and remained prosperous into the Empire and the restoration of the monarchy.