Lot 78

Wear consistent with age and use, small sections infilled on top rail, seat rail strengthened, one leg re-toed, one rear leg spliced.


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Andre & Cecile Fink Antiquaries, Sydney, 2008

Jean-Baptiste Boulard (1725-1789), began as an apprentice to the renowned menuisier Michel Avisse. Boulard worked almost exclusively for the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne from 1777, supplying a plethora of menuiserie to the Crown at Versailles, the Tuileries, Fontainebleau and Saint-Cloud. He collaborated with fellow menuisier Jean-Baptiste Sené (maître in 1769), with whom he shared many Royal commissions, to deliver a suite of chairs for Mme Elisabeth's dining room at Montreuil and again in 1786, to deliver a suite of twelve dining-chairs for the salle à manger of Louis XVI at Versailles (P. Verlet, Le Mobilier Royal Français, vol. I, pp. 81-83, n. 31, pl. XLV).