Lot Essay
Jacques Jean-Baptiste Tilliard, known as Jean Baptiste Tilliard II, maître in 1752.
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BY JEAN-BAPTISTE TILLIARD, CIRCA 1775
Details
A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BERGERES
BY JEAN-BAPTISTE TILLIARD, CIRCA 1775
Each with rounded padded back, arms and seat covered in mint-green silk, the chanelled back carved with beed-and-real, with scroll arm terminals above foliate-sheathed supports carved with chutes de piastres, the guilloche-carved seatrails on turned tapering fluted legs headed by rosette paterae and terminating in toupie feet; each backrail stamped 'TILLIARD', each frontrail inscribed 'D. 666' in white chalk; refreshments to the gilding
39 ¾ in. (101 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide; 27 in. (69 cm.) deep
BY JEAN-BAPTISTE TILLIARD, CIRCA 1775
Each with rounded padded back, arms and seat covered in mint-green silk, the chanelled back carved with beed-and-real, with scroll arm terminals above foliate-sheathed supports carved with chutes de piastres, the guilloche-carved seatrails on turned tapering fluted legs headed by rosette paterae and terminating in toupie feet; each backrail stamped 'TILLIARD', each frontrail inscribed 'D. 666' in white chalk; refreshments to the gilding
39 ¾ in. (101 cm.) high; 28 in. (71 cm.) wide; 27 in. (69 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's Monaco, 13 February 1983, lot 411.
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Jacques Jean-Baptiste Tilliard, known as Jean Baptiste Tilliard II, maître in 1752.