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Painted in white and duck egg blue and extravagantly carved throughout with ribbon carving and foliage. The carving is in high relief and crisply achieved. The chairs have a gadrooned moulding at the top, fluted sides and arms with the front scroll enriched with stylised daisies. Seat rail is bow fronted and the chairs stand on turned fluted and reeded legs enriched with foliate carving above the topie feet.
The chairs are highly unusual in their richness and density of carving. They are not stamped but in form they closely resemble the work of Jean Baptiste Sené, however they also bear close relation in the richness of the carving and the form to the work of Sefert.
Attributed to Pierre Francois Sefert (1732-1803).
Sefert was a Parisian chair maker who had workshops in the rue Saint-Nicolas. He is best known for his Louis XVI neo classical chair designs although he also produced pieces in the rococo taste well into the late 18th century.