Lot 134
  • 134

A Louis XV giltwood bergère circa 1755, stamped C. Deseine

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Description

  • Claude Deseine (1726-1796), maître in 1754
  • wood (Wood, Other-Beechwood)
  • height 37 1/2 in.; width 28 in.; depth 24 in.
  • 95.5 cm; 71 cm; 61 cm

Provenance

Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, 1955

Literature

F. J. B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Vol. I, Greenwich, 1966, p. 26, no. 19

Condition

With some age and construction cracks. Showing signs of old worm. Minor losses to gesso. Regilt, now with rubbing, some losses and surface dirt to gilding. In otherwise good overall condition. Feet later blocked.
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Catalogue Note

A set of six fauteuils and a canapé en suite with this bergère was sold, Ader, Picard, Tajan, Hôtel Georges V, Paris, June 23, 1988.

A fauteuil from this set is illustrated, P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 2002, p. 294, fig. a.