The cartouche-shaped chanelled back centred by a cabochon flanked by foliate sprays issuing arms terminating in scrolls, the seat-rail conformingly carved, on four cabriole legs headed by flowerheads, terminating in scrolling toupie feet, the padded back, seat and arms upholstered in teal silk velvet, stamped 'POTHIER'
35. 1/2 in. (90 cm.) high; 27 in. (69 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.)

Sold, Sothebys Paris, 23 June 2004, lot 46.

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Jean-Jacques Pothier, maître in 1750.

The menuisier Jean-Jacques Pothier established workshops in the rue Mazarine in the 1750s before moving to rue de Bourbon-Villeneuve. A virtually identical fauteuil is illustrated L'Art et la Manière des Maitre Ébénistes François au XVIII siècle, ed. Guy le Prat, 1956, fig. A. A set of related fauteuils by Pothier, in the collection of the Dukes of Buccleuch and Queensberry, is illustrated in T. Murdoch ed., Boughton House, London, 1992 (fig. 27).