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A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
- CIRCA 1760, ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE NOGARET OF LYON

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A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
CIRCA 1760, ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE NOGARET OF LYON
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    $100,000 - $150,000

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Sale 2374
500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe Including Oriental Carpets and Including Sculpture from the Collection of Michael Hall
11 June 2010
New York, Rockefeller Plaza Buy Catalog





Lot Description

A SET OF FOUR LOUIS XV GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS
CIRCA 1760, ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE NOGARET OF LYON
Each with ribbon-entwined frame, seatrails and back centered by flowers, with appliqué green silk velvet upholstery, re-gilt, each chair carved with a different variety of flower to seatrail (4)

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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION (LOT 103)

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Pierre Nogaret, maître in 1745 in Lyon.

These impressive fauteuils, with their distinctive ribbon-carved frames, can be attributed with some certainty to the menuisier Pierre Nogaret of Lyon, on the basis of a suite of mobilier with very similarly carved frames, signed Nogaret (sold anonymously; Sotheby's Monaco, 25 June 1983, lots 92-94). Another closely related, but unstamped, set of four fauteuils was sold anonymously; Sotheby's Monaco, 14 June 1981, lot 124,( now in a private collection), while a further set, with similar frames and also stamped Nogaret, was formerly on the Paris art market.

Although born in Paris, Pierre Nogaret served his apprenticeship and his whole career as a menuisier in Lyon, and is well known for the sinuous form and distinctive floral clusters of the carved frames of his seat furniture. Although he regularly stamped his furniture, his maîtrise is unrecorded. Examples of Nogaret's work can be found in the Museé Historique and Museé des Arts Decoratifs, Lyon, and in the Museé Jacquemart André and Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris.

THE PROVENANCE

The superb collection from which these impressive fauteuils are being sold was formed by a discriminating collector in the 1970s, principally at auction, and almost exclusively at the series of great collection sales at Christie's which marked those years. Extraordinary purchases were made at the sale of Lord Wharton's collection in 1970, followed by the sale in 1971 of Mrs. Dodge's magnificent assemblage of French works of art, assembled with the help of Duveen in the 1930s. Other acquisitions were made at the dispersal of a major group of furniture from the Hillingdon Collection in 1972 and from the legendary Sydney J. Lamon sale in 1973. All these purchases were made with great discernment and the highest regard for quality, making it one of the most important collections of French furniture assembled in recent years.

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