Details
Each frame carved with piastres, the bowed seat rails carved with acanthus, on spiral-fluted tapering legs, the padded rectangular backs, arms and seat cushions covered in vermilion velvet, one stamped IB SENE
3634 in. (93.5 cm.) high
Provenance
With Jean Wanecq, Paris, 2002.
Property from a House and Garden Designed by David Hicks, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Hindman, Chicago, 19 July 2022, lot 16.
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Jean-Baptiste Sené, maître in 1769.

The son of the menuisier Claude I Sené, J.B.C.Sené was established in the rue du Cléry at the sign of the Gros Chapelet. In 1785, he was appointed fournisseur du Garde-Meuble de la Couronne alongside Jean-Baptiste Boulard, and he gradually supplanted the latter to rank among the most celebrated menuisiers of the Louis XVI period. Royal patronage dominated the vast majority of his mature career, and he was responsible for supplying seat-furniture to the King and Queen at Saint-Cloud, Versailles, Compiègne and Fontainebleau. After the Revolution, Sené worked as an administrator for the new Republican government, as such, he was also able to continue producing furniture unlike many of his contemporaries. Sené was undoubtedly influenced by the work of Georges Jacob, particularly in his use of mahogany, and they are known to have collaborated on a number of commissions for the Garde-Meuble and Menus-Plaisirs.

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