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Lot 333
Description:
A Very Rare American Classical Carved Mahogany Bergere, c. 1815, probably Charles Honore Lannuier, New York, scrolled tablet crest, reeded stiles with palmette terminals, downswept arms with ring-turned supports, bowed seat rail, molded saber legs with figured mahogany panels; ash secondary wood.
- Notes: Note: The scholar Peter Kenny has noted Lannuier's, "Merging of Pure French Style with the New York Vernacular." The lot offered here remarkably incorporates the same reeding and carving on the stile seen in a fauteuil made by Parisian Jacob Fréres for General Jean-Victor Marie Moreau, c. 1800, and also relates to a fauteuil descended in the family of Robert R. Livingston, Jr. (New York, 1747-1813), who served as minister to Paris under Thomas Jefferson. French style in early 19th c. New York is also addressed in Wendy Cooper's important text, Classical Taste In America, 1800-1840 A Lannuier games table, c. 1810, now in the White House collection (acc. 992.1704.1), has four ring- turned columnar sup orts in the manner of the arm supports on this lot. Though the bergere form appears rarely in American furniture, a well-known example of a New York bergere from the collection of Ronald S. Kane was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1970 Reference: Kenny, et. al. Honore Lannuier, Cabinetmaker from Paris, The Life and Work of a French Ebeniste in New York p. 76; Cooper, ibid. p. 30, pl. 3; Sotheby's January 25, 1996, lot 1611; Kenny. Ibid. p58, pl. 22; Tracy and Johnson. 19th-Century America, Furniture and Other Decorative Arts, fig. 78.
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