Details
The rounded back en corbeille with triple arched crest rail with foliate finials with similarly carved down-swept rails, the padded arms with guilloche-carved scrolled terminals leading to acanthus-decorated supports on toupie feet, the back rail stamped L.M. Pluvinet


Provenance
Acquired from The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, February 2008.
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Louis-Magdeleine Pluvinet, likely the son of the menuisier Philippe Pluvinet, died in 1783, only eight years after receiving his maîtrise in 1775.

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