Thank you for registering for our auction! You are required to provide: 1. Deposit; 保证金待商议; 2. Copy or images of ID card (front and back) or Passport 3. Images of Credit card (front and back).
A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV GILTWOOD BERGERES BY CLAUDE I SENE, CIRCA 1770, THE BRAQUENIE PRINTED VELVET SUPPLIED BY HENRI SAMUEL En suite with the following lot, each with leaftip carved frame, the in-curved legs carved with garlands and guilloche and covered with leaf patterned velvet, the frames stamped G SENE, with red-painted Wrightsman inventory number 41B or D
Acquired from Nogatch, Paris, via Rosenberg and Stiebel, 1957.
Claude I Sené, ma?tre in 1743.
The oeuvre of Claude I Sené is often only associated with Louis XV models of rococo outline, while his sons, Jean-Baptiste and Claude II (both ma?tres in 1769) are generally linked to pure neo-classical designs. Several authors, such as P. Kjellberg, suggest that such an association was probably compounded by various misinterpretations of the respective stamps of Claude I (G. SENE with an inverted N) and Claude II (C. SENE) in various publications and early sale catalogues. The present pair demonstrates that Claude I produced seats in the late Louis XV and early Louis XVI style of the 1760s and 1770s, and that his oeuvre was more prolific than had thus far been assumed (P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Fran?ais du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 804-806). The graceful in-curving legs and the inventively-carved lower inner section of the back rest exhibit Sené's familiarity and full understanding of the go?t grec style popular in France during the late 1760s and early 1770s. The relative scarcity of these Louis XVI bergères by Claude I Sené, with their superb carving and original design make it an important and rare suite of seat furniture.