A LOUIS XV/LOUIS XVI TRANSITIONAL SYCAMORE TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY TABLE A TRANSFORMATION
A LOUIS XV/LOUIS XVI TRANSITIONAL SYCAMORE TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY TABLE A TRANSFORMATION

STAMPED RVLC AND R.LACROIX, CIRCA 1765

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A LOUIS XV/LOUIS XVI TRANSITIONAL SYCAMORE TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY TABLE A TRANSFORMATION
Stamped RVLC and R.LACROIX, Circa 1765
The double crossbanded and featherbanded shaped top centered by a military trophy flanked by flowering branches, sliding back, to reveal a deep fitted frieze drawer decorated with peasants merry making before a village and enclosing three rectangular panels, the central decorated with a love trophy and lifting to a mirror, those on either side inlaid with an urn and opening to reveal a well, each crossbanded side decorated with flowering branches, the crossbanded back centered by a flowering urn flanked by a pair of flowering vases, on cabriole legs and later sabots cast with pierced, scrolled, acanthus-sheathed rocaille
28½in. (72.5cm.) high, 27in. (68.5cm.) wide, 17½in. (44.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Roger Vandercruse (called Lacroix), maître in 1755.

Roger Vandercruse (1727-1799), known as Lacroix or RVLC is justly famous for the quality of the small tables he produced, continuing the tradition set by BVRB, usually with an elaborate parquetry decoration. The decorative scheme on this table is obviously less geometric and rare in his oeuvre. People rarely appear in his village scenes and the combination of vases with trophies on the interior is seldom seen, appearing on the celebrated commode delivered in 1769 by Joubert (although subcontracted to RVLC) for Mme. Victoire at Compiègne and now in the Frick Collection, New York.

Another table, unstamped, of similar shape and decoration, was sold from the Lehman Collection, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 5 June 1925, lot 117.

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