Rare M. Gourdin Signed Louis XV Settee - Canapé à Chassis - Sofa à la Rein carved candlesticks 14 1/8" diam

14 1/8" diam

Height  10" Width 6" Depth 4"

Height  37

More recently fitted interior with 4 drawers

Rare M. Gourdin Signed Louis XV Settee - Canapé à Chassis - Sofa à la Rein carved candlesticks 14 1/8" diamAn important, signed Louis XV period canap chassis by Michel Gourdin. The padded back with a carved serpentine back, part padded arms on scroll terminals and a serpentine seat a carved seat rail and channeled cabriole legs with foliate feet, the wood likely beechwood, stamped twice M. Gourdin, for renouned ebniste Michel Gourdin, maitre, Paris 1752. A Chassis pieces are the highest quality and therefore most valuable of 18th Century French furniture.