BY LOUIS DELANOIS, CIRCA 1765-75

Name: A PAIR OF LOUIS XV BEECHWOOD CHAIRS
Brand: BY LOUIS DELANOIS, CIRCA 1765-75
Price: 3500.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 4,375

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GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000

Closed: 1 Jun 2020

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV BEECHWOOD CHAIRS

BY LOUIS DELANOIS, CIRCA 1765-75

Price Realised GBP 4,375

Closed: 1 Jun 2020

Price Realised GBP 4,375

Closed: 1 Jun 2020

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Each with a cartouche-shaped back with moulded frame, on cabriole legs ending with hoof feet, upholstered with red burgundy cut-velvet, stamped 'L.DELANOIS'
35¹⁄₂ in. (90.5 cm.) high

Probably supplied to the Ecole de Chirurgie in Paris, circa 1775.

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Lot Essay

Louis Delanois, in 1761.
This pair of chairs with its unusual shape and hoof feet was once part of a set almost certainly suppliedto the in Paris, build 1775 by the architect Jacques Gondouin (1737-1818).
Although made by Louis Delanois, who became Master in 1761 and essentially worked in the new neo-classical style, this set is interestingly stylistically reminiscent to Louis XIV period. In 1911, twenty-one chairs of this set were still recorded in the Ecole de Chirurgie by Noé Legrand, in his (Paris, 1911, pp. 212-213):

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