Crest rail of a settee 17th-18th century In the manner of François Roumier The crest rail with its symmetric design was executed during the early stage of the Rococo style known as Régence which encompassed the period of 1715-1723, when Philippe II, duc dOrléans, served as regent to the young Louis XV. The Régence style was a reaction against the Baroque grandeur and formality of the court under Louis XIV and transitioned to a more frivolous and intimate sensibility developing into the full-blown Rococo with its penchant for asymmetry by circa 1730. The carved ornament on this railing, consisting of trelliswork inscribed by rosettes, flanked by asymmetrical C and S-shaped scrolls, shells, as well as floral decoration, bears resemblance to a design by François Roumier, published in his Livre de plusieurs coins de Bordures of 1724. As a decorative carver employed by the Btiments du Roi, the agency in charge of the construction and maintenance of the various French royal palaces, Roumie

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Crest rail of a settee 17th-18th century In the manner of François Roumier The crest rail with its symmetric design was executed during the early stage of the Rococo style known as Régence which encompassed the period of 1715-1723, when Philippe II, duc dOrléans, served as regent to the young Louis XV. The Régence style was a reaction against the Baroque grandeur and formality of the court under Louis XIV and transitioned to a more frivolous and intimate sensibility developing into the full-blown Rococo with its penchant for asymmetry by circa 1730. The carved ornament on this railing, consisting of trelliswork inscribed by rosettes, flanked by asymmetrical C and S-shaped scrolls, shells, as well as floral decoration, bears resemblance to a design by François Roumier, published in his Livre de plusieurs coins de Bordures of 1724. As a decorative carver employed by the Btiments du Roi, the agency in charge of the construction and maintenance of the various French royal palaces, Roumie

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