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| Each with chanelled back with removable padded back and drop-in seat covered in blue and with-striped silk the top and seat-rail centered by flowerhead on cabriole legs headed by flowerheads and terminating in scroll feet, one stamped once, the other twice to the inside of back-rail, one marked A the other B to same area in black pen . Height : 37.4 in Depth : 19.69 in Breadth : 22.44 in Stamped : Nicolas Quinibert Foliot; maître en 1729 : Louis XV provenance with Michael Taylor, San Francisco Nicolas Quinibert Foliot came from a celebrate family of menuisier and like his father Nicolas before him, was a fournisseur attitré du Garde meuble Royal. He was one of the most important menuisiers of the Louis XV period, supplying extensive amounts of seat furniture to the royal court, including a dais for the throne of Louis XV at Versailles, a complete mobilier for the Chambre du Roi, and important pieces for the comtesse du Barry and the Comtesse de Provence. |
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