"A Rococo Mastery"
An Exceptionally Carved Canapé with
Its Original Reparure & Gilding

Paris, C. 1730-1740

​Att. to Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot (1706–1776, warden 1750/52)

​Carved and Gilded wood

 

Provenance :

- Collection of Monsieur et Madame Louis Burat.
- Collection of Alfred Besnier.
- Collection of Antenor Patiño.
- Collection of Geoffrey Gilmour, Esq.

- Anonymous sale ('The Property of a Nobleman'), Christie's - London, 3 July 1986, lot 81.

- Acquired by a Private Collector.

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Literature :

- Bill G.B. Pallot, L'Art du Siège au XVIIIè Siècle en France, Paris, ACR Gismondi, 1987, p. 126.
- Bill G.B. Pallot, Le mobilier du Musée du Louvre, vol. 2, Dijon, Faton, 1993, pp. 48-49, n° 12.

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