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Superb pair of Louis XV cabriolet armchairs, beech decorated with intricately carved flowers and foliage, trace of legend, of XVIIIth century.
These seats are in good condition. The seat is wide, these chairs are very comfortable. They are fully pegged. One of the chairs has a trace of stamp * but it is difficult to read (see photos) (JME at first). They were retapissés later.
A note: an armrest moves a chair, cross sides were réentées on a chair, the tips of the feet are redone, they were reinforced underneath, use of repairs (including both ankles redone, see last photo) old wormholes, normal wear on the wood, visible in the pictures.
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* The stamp had already been imposed in the seventeenth century (and even in the Statutes of 1647). In the seventeenth century, the upholsterer master was the main factor shopkeeper marketing master carpenter and master cabinet maker. Especially for the seats, where he went indispensable. For those seats did at the beginning, little wooden beams, they require a long process of packing. But under the regulations, the tapestry is needed to sell only works executed by master carpenter. It was in 1743 that took effect the re-obligation of each teacher to mark his works with an iron bearing his name or initials. But well before that date, from the Regency, faithful to the statutes of 1637, some teachers were using a brand. The headquarters of the carpenters, cabinetmakers Community was located rue de la Mortellerie. It housed the guild ,, in which a "principal" and six "jurors" regulated current affairs, chose and checked the control masterpieces, chased and free workers were monitoring the quality of the goods Parisian workshops .
