A LOUIS XVI SOLID MAHOGANY BERGERE, CIRCA 1775

A LOUIS XVI SOLID MAHOGANY BERGERE
CIRCA 1775
In richly figured mahogany, the arched back with molded borders leading to ram’s mask arm terminals and incurved fluted supports with bound fasces, with solid saddle seat, the seat-rail carved with a Herculean lion’s pelt, on fluted tapering legs headed with acanthus, the underside marked twice with an anchor flanked by ‘A4’, and twice with a fleur de lys
39 in. (99.1 cm.) high

Provenance

Possibly supplied to Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre (1725-1793), for the Pavillon Carré at the château d’Anet.
With Etienne Lévy, Paris.
Garrick Stephenson; Christie's, New York, 29 October 1993, lot 179.