Lot 156
156
A SET OF TWELVE LOUIS XVI WHITE-PAINTED SIDE CHAIRS
A SET OF TWELVE LOUIS XVI WHITE-PAINTED DINING CHAIRS

BY CLAUDE CHEVIGNY, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A SET OF TWELVE LOUIS XVI WHITE-PAINTED DINING CHAIRS
BY CLAUDE CHEVIGNY, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Each with channelled frame, the arched caned back above a conforming bowed seat on stop-fluted tapering legs, three stamped 'C. CHEVIGNY' and two with 'JME' control stamp, all with later pale blue squab cushions, three with minor differences, later decorated
34 ½ in. (88 cm.) high and similar
Provenance
The Georg Waechter Memorial Foundation; sold Sotheby's, Zurich, 5 June 1996, lot 322.

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Lot Essay

Claude Chevigny, maître in 1768.
This large set of Louis XVI side chairs was made by the ébéniste Claude Chevigny, who worked from the rue de Cléry during the last quarter of the 18th century and specialised in luxury seat furniture for the French nobility and other important clients. Chevigny received important commissions from both the duc de Choiseul for the Château de Chanteloup and the duc de Montmorency for the Château de Modave in Belgium.

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