Rare M. Gourdin Signed Louis XV Settee - Canapé à Chassis - Sofa à la Rein carved candlesticks Height 10" Width 6" Depth

Height  10" Width 6" Depth 4"

5 Width 33

Tested 14k gold and 4

Victorian diamond ring

14 1/8" diam

Rare M. Gourdin Signed Louis XV Settee - Canapé à Chassis - Sofa à la Rein carved candlesticks Height 10" Width 6" DepthAn 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.