Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair), Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené, 1786

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Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair), 1786, French, Carved and painted beechwood, covered in pink silk, 18 1/4 in. × 27 in. × 20 1/4 in. ( × × cm), Woodwork-Furniture, Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené (1748–1803), Gilded by Louis-François Chatard (ca. 1749–1819), Rosette-shaped bosses on bolt ends gilded by Chaudron, On May 1, 1786, Jean Hauré (active 1771–after 1796) received a commission for a set of furniture comprising forty pliants or folding stools, twelve regular stools, or tabourets, a folding screen, and a fire screen for Marie Antoinette's Salon des Jeux at Compiégne

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