"Sheep Bone Sofa From The Louis XIII Period."
Mouto bone sofa with gaiac wood wings, reupholstered new and old, covered with a Mayenne canvas. This three-seater sofa can be related to port furniture by the choice of exotic wood, gaiac wood or iron wood, very dense, very hard, not floating, also called "holy or life wood". Work from the South West of France. Louis XIII period. Mid-seventeenth century.