BY JEAN-BAPTISTE II TILLIARD, CIRCA 1775

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CANAPE
BY JEAN-BAPTISTE II TILLIARD, CIRCA 1775
The frame carved with scrolling laurel branches and covered in blue silk damask, with acanthus-carved arms, on fluted legs, the rails stamped TILLIARD twice, with unusual visible tenon joins to the seat frame and cuts to the crestrail which may indicate the size has been slightly altered
66 ½ in. (169 cm.) long

Provenance

Acquired from Fersen, Paris in 1968.

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Lot Essay

The architectural form and use of Roman laurel leaves illustrates the stylistic progression of the Tilliard dynasty from the sinuous, sculpted lines of the Rococo to the Classical lines and ornament of the Louis XVI era. Under the direction of Jean-Baptiste II Tilliard (1723-97), who assumed both his father’s stamp and the title of maître menuisier du Garde-Meuble du Roi, Tilliard continued to supply furniture to the Royal family. Those commissions included a suite of six fauteuils, a canapé, two bergères and a firescreen for the marchand-mercier François-Charles Darnault in 1784 which went to the apartment of the King of Sweden at Versailles (P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1989, cle, Paris, 1989, p.840). A related canapé from the collection of Monsieur and Madame François was sold at Christie's, London, 9 June 2011, lot 160 (£109, 250).

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