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A very fine set of four Louis XV beechwood chairs attributed to Pierre Nogaret, each with a cartouche-shaped padded back and serpentine seat covered in a blue silk damask, the finely carved channelled frame with toprail centred by a scrolling foliate cartouche with a foliate band continuing around the top rail, the shaped channelled apron centred by similar decoration on foliate-headed cabriole legs Most probably Lyon, date circa 1750 Height 98 cm, width 59 cm, depth 50 cm. each. The proportions and distinctive flowing lines as well as the quality of the cartouche and foliate carving closely compare with other seat furniture made by the famous Lyon menuisier, Pierre Nogaret (1718-71). Nogaret was born in Paris and died in Lyon and after serving his apprenticeship in Paris moved to Lyon in about 1743, where he was received as a maître menuisier in 1745 and established great repute as a menuisier en sieges. Setting up business in rue Saint-Romain, he became a courrier and then maître-garde of his guild. The marquise de Massa of Paris owned a suite of seats by Nogaret and in 1925 the antiquarian Monsieur Bouvier possessed a beautiful fauteuil bearing his stamp |