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A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI MAHOGANY CHAISES BY JEAN-BAPTISTE SENE, CIRCA 1785 Upholstered in leopard-print silk velvet, each stamped J.B. SENE to the front seat rail
Acquired from Galerie Camoin, Paris, 1983 (as a set of six, one pair with different upholstery sold from the Palm Beach residence; Sotheby's, New York, 5 May 1984, lot 231, the other pair sold from the London residence; Sotheby's, New York, 28 April 2010, lot 89.)
Jean-Baptiste Sené, ma?tre in 1769.
Jean-Baptiste Sené (1748-1803) dominated the production of menuiserie in Paris during the last years of the ancien régime. His principal clients were Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, and from 1785-1791 he provided seat-furniture, beds, consoles, folding stools, footstools, screens, etc. for Fontainebleau, The Tuileries, Versailles and particularly Saint-Cloud. Sené is known to have sub-contracted the carving of much of his Royal commisions to his favorite sculpteurs, Pierre Laurent, Nicolas Vallois and Alexandre Régnier, and the gilding to Louis Chatard - who seems to have enjoyed a virtual monopoly on pieces destined for the Royal family.