Rare M. Gourdin Signed Louis XV Settee - Canapé à Chassis - Sofa à la Rein Wine cooler Rapetti (Italian

Rapetti (Italian

found in Provence

Recently upholstered in linen

x 36” diam

Rare M. Gourdin Signed Louis XV Settee - Canapé à Chassis - Sofa à la Rein Wine cooler Rapetti (ItalianAn 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.