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the triple domed padded back, armrests and shaped seat covered with blue silk close-nail upholstered with blue and white silk and with three matching squab cushions, on cabriole legs terminating in scroll feet, stamped 'BAUVE'
3812 in. (98 cm.) high; 87 in. (211 cm.) wide; 2612 in. (67 cm.) deep
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Mathieu Bauve, maître in 1754.
This elegantly proportioned canapé by Mathieu Bauve (d.1786) displays the maker's hallmark rocaille fashioning characteristic of the mid-eighteenth French style. An innovator in furniture design, Bauve was at the height of his craft and should be considered amongst the most celebrated furniture markers of his age: Delanois, Heurtaut and Jacob. After an apprenticeship with Nicolas-Quinibert Foliot, he received his maître on the same day as Jean-Baptiste Boulard, RVLC and Fromageau.

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