A PAIR OF LOUIS XV BEECHWOOD FAUTEUILS, BY LOUIS CRESSON, CIRCA 1740

A PAIR OF LOUIS XV BEECHWOOD FAUTEUILS
BY LOUIS CRESSON, CIRCA 1740
Each with cartouche form back and serpentine seat upholstered á chassis in grey velvet and with a cartouche with trailing floral garlands and shells, flanked by out-scrolled arms, on floral cabochon carved cabriole legs ending in scrolled toes, stamped L.CRESSON, probably orginally polychrome-decorated

Provenance

Rodolphe Kann (1844-1905), Paris.
Purchased by Duveen Brothers in 1907, along with the entire Kann collection.
Acquired from the above by Archer Huntington (1870-1955), by whom gifted to Yale University.
Anonymous Sale; Sotheby's Parke Bernet, New York, 19-20 January 1973, lot 226 (one chair).
Anonymous Sale (Property of an East Coast Institution); Christie's, New York, 25 May 1993, lot 60 (the chair with stencil 217).