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<p>[QUOTE="Phil Harrison, post: 872068, member: 11507"]This is interesting. This is a screenshot of a website that sells modern, brand new, reproduction louis XV furniture. It’s the same chair. It isn’t merely similar - it is, to all intents and purposes, identical. Look at the two back rests closely. Work your way down the back rest, forensically, noting the points of similarity. Every element is near identical. Same arms, legs, stretchers. I’d say they are 95% the same.</p><p><br /></p><p>Clearly, my chairs are at least 100 years old. Equally clearly, the creator of the modern repro has closely referenced a period louis XV chair in creating his piece. Either that, or he’s referenced a revival piece/pastiche (of which there are 1000’s) that just happens to resemble mine in practically every particular. Seems unlikely.</p><p><br /></p><p>Given that my chairs have spent the last 50 years in a barn, it seems reasonable to suppose that both my chairs and this made-yesterday repro were based on the same chair - not the same general type or style of chair but a known, specific, particular piece.</p><p><br /></p><p>My chairs were bought on the south coast of England, close to a sea port on the English Channel, 25 miles from France. It seems clear to me now that my chairs are French and at the very least a close facsimile of a Louis XV chair that was sufficiently well known/archetypical as to allow an online manufacturer of reproductions to reference it, entirely independently, comparatively recently.</p><p><br /></p><p>I’m not sure where the consensus that my chairs must be post-1880 (let alone C20th, which strikes me as borderline ludicrous; no one was hand carving back rests like this, or creating hand embroidery of this sort, in England at least, in the early twentieth century) is coming from? I’d like to hear the evidence that’s allowing you to be so emphatic.</p><p><br /></p><p>Clearly the thread title is a misnomer - these aren’t, and never were, Carolean chairs, either period or revival. That much I can grant. But might they be Louis XV chairs, 1715-1774? I believe so.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[GALLERY=media, 5112]Repro by Phil Harrison posted Aug 23, 2019 at 10:44 PM[/GALLERY]</p><p>[GALLERY=media, 5064]Chair by Phil Harrison posted Aug 22, 2019 at 8:55 PM[/GALLERY][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Phil Harrison, post: 872068, member: 11507"]This is interesting. This is a screenshot of a website that sells modern, brand new, reproduction louis XV furniture. It’s the same chair. It isn’t merely similar - it is, to all intents and purposes, identical. Look at the two back rests closely. Work your way down the back rest, forensically, noting the points of similarity. Every element is near identical. Same arms, legs, stretchers. I’d say they are 95% the same. Clearly, my chairs are at least 100 years old. Equally clearly, the creator of the modern repro has closely referenced a period louis XV chair in creating his piece. Either that, or he’s referenced a revival piece/pastiche (of which there are 1000’s) that just happens to resemble mine in practically every particular. Seems unlikely. Given that my chairs have spent the last 50 years in a barn, it seems reasonable to suppose that both my chairs and this made-yesterday repro were based on the same chair - not the same general type or style of chair but a known, specific, particular piece. My chairs were bought on the south coast of England, close to a sea port on the English Channel, 25 miles from France. It seems clear to me now that my chairs are French and at the very least a close facsimile of a Louis XV chair that was sufficiently well known/archetypical as to allow an online manufacturer of reproductions to reference it, entirely independently, comparatively recently. I’m not sure where the consensus that my chairs must be post-1880 (let alone C20th, which strikes me as borderline ludicrous; no one was hand carving back rests like this, or creating hand embroidery of this sort, in England at least, in the early twentieth century) is coming from? I’d like to hear the evidence that’s allowing you to be so emphatic. Clearly the thread title is a misnomer - these aren’t, and never were, Carolean chairs, either period or revival. That much I can grant. But might they be Louis XV chairs, 1715-1774? I believe so. [GALLERY=media, 5112]Repro by Phil Harrison posted Aug 23, 2019 at 10:44 PM[/GALLERY] [GALLERY=media, 5064]Chair by Phil Harrison posted Aug 22, 2019 at 8:55 PM[/GALLERY][/QUOTE]
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