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Article: MFA PADS OFFERINGS WITH DISPLAY OF FRENCH ROYAL FURNITURE REGILDING AND REUPHOLSTERY TOOK 4 YEARS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 12, 2003
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PARIS - Ten newly restored pieces of the Swan collection of 18th-
century French royal furniture were recently unveiled in the Evans
wing of the Museum of Fine Arts, making the MFA one of the most
important hubs for furniture of this kind in the United States.
Created for the French musketeer Marc-Antoine Thierry de Ville
d'Avray in the late 1700s, the set of furniture later crossed the
Atlantic, bound for Dorchester on the boat of a swashbuckling
opportunist named James Swan.
The restoration - a four-year process that saw the furniture leave
Boston on cargo planes bound for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los
Angeles for regilding, then to France to be worked on by three expert
firms - has been ...