Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair). Culture: French. Decorator: Carved by Nicolas François Vallois (1738-1788). Dimensions: 18 1/4 in. × 27 in. × 20 1/4 in. (46.4 × 68.6 × 51.4 cm). Maker: Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené (1748-1803); Gilded by Louis-François Chatard (ca. 1749-1819); Rosette-shaped bosses on bolt ends gilded by Chaudron. Date: 1786.On May 1, 1786, Jean Hauré (active 1771-after 1796) received a commission for a set of furniture comprising forty pliants or folding stools, twelve regular stools, or tabourets, a folding screen, and a fire screen for Marie Antoinette's Salon des Jeux at Compiégne. Twenty-four of the X-shaped folding stools, all the tabourets, and both screens were then sent instead to the queen's gaming room at Fontainebleau. On September 3 of the same year Hauré was asked to supply an additional twenty-four pliants, twelve tabourets, a chamber screen, and a fire screen for Compiegne. Two of the pliants are now in the Museum's collection, a gift of the Wrights

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Folding stool (pliant) (one of a pair). Culture: French. Decorator: Carved by Nicolas François Vallois (1738-1788). Dimensions: 18 1/4 in. × 27 in. × 20 1/4 in. (46.4 × 68.6 × 51.4 cm). Maker: Jean-Baptiste-Claude Sené (1748-1803); Gilded by Louis-François Chatard (ca. 1749-1819); Rosette-shaped bosses on bolt ends gilded by Chaudron. Date: 1786.On May 1, 1786, Jean Hauré (active 1771-after 1796) received a commission for a set of furniture comprising forty pliants or folding stools, twelve regular stools, or tabourets, a folding screen, and a fire screen for Marie Antoinette's Salon des Jeux at Compiégne. Twenty-four of the X-shaped folding stools, all the tabourets, and both screens were then sent instead to the queen's gaming room at Fontainebleau. On September 3 of the same year Hauré was asked to supply an additional twenty-four pliants, twelve tabourets, a chamber screen, and a fire screen for Compiegne. Two of the pliants are now in the Museum's collection, a gift of the Wrights

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