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Lot Essay
With its distinctive scrolled acanthus issuing flowerhead tendrils and trellis mounts, this encoignure is closely related to the oeuvre of Charles Cressent (maître in 1719), ébéniste du Régent Philippe, duc d'Orléans, recalling mounts of the same type on the commodes à palmes et fleurs and aux enfants musiciens at the musée du Louvre and the Residenz Museum, Munich, respectively (illustrated A. Pradère, Les Ébénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1987, p. 136, fig. 97, p. 139., fig. 106).
A very similar encoignure but with a trellis parquetry ground and each of its otherwise identical mounts further embellished with an ivy tendril and draped with a garland was formerly in the collection of Madame Burat (sold Ader, Paris, 13-14 February 1941, resold Delorme et Freyac, Paris, 5 June 1996, no. 122 (FF202,000) and is illustrated in M. Fouquier Les Belles Aventures d'un Marteau d'Ivoire, Paris, 1947, p.116, fig. D. Another pair, also with trellis parquetry ground, identical mounts with garlands but no ivy tendrils, and further embellished with angle mounts and stamped GILLET (Jean Gillet, maître in 1737) was formerly in the collection of Sir Brian Mountain, Rosehaugh House, Rosshire (sold 29 July 1954, lot 87, £430.10, resold Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 2 December 1955).
As the Cressent corner cupboard 'la pipée des oiseaux' (Ibid, p. 137, fig. 100) was en suite with a similarly-decorated commode now at Waddesdon Manor (Ibid, p. 136, fig. 98), the present corner cupboard would probably also have been paired with a commode like the palmes et fleurs or aux enfants musiciens mentioned above.
A very similar encoignure but with a trellis parquetry ground and each of its otherwise identical mounts further embellished with an ivy tendril and draped with a garland was formerly in the collection of Madame Burat (sold Ader, Paris, 13-14 February 1941, resold Delorme et Freyac, Paris, 5 June 1996, no. 122 (FF202,000) and is illustrated in M. Fouquier Les Belles Aventures d'un Marteau d'Ivoire, Paris, 1947, p.116, fig. D. Another pair, also with trellis parquetry ground, identical mounts with garlands but no ivy tendrils, and further embellished with angle mounts and stamped GILLET (Jean Gillet, maître in 1737) was formerly in the collection of Sir Brian Mountain, Rosehaugh House, Rosshire (sold 29 July 1954, lot 87, £430.10, resold Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 2 December 1955).
As the Cressent corner cupboard 'la pipée des oiseaux' (Ibid, p. 137, fig. 100) was en suite with a similarly-decorated commode now at Waddesdon Manor (Ibid, p. 136, fig. 98), the present corner cupboard would probably also have been paired with a commode like the palmes et fleurs or aux enfants musiciens mentioned above.