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Lot Essay
With its distinctive marquetry of flowers in bois de bout, this elegant table relates to the oeuvre of the celebrated maître Bernard II van Risamburg, known as BVRB and more specifically to a few related tables stamped or attributed to him.
A very similar table, formerly in the Wrighstman Collection and sold, Sotheby's, New York, 3 May 1986, lot 127, is illustrated in F. J. B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, New York, 1966, Vol. I, n. 132 p. 264-265.
Another table, in the Jones Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum, is illustrated in O. Brackett, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, London, 1922, n. 14 and pl. 6. A further one, with an undertier, formerly also in the Wrightsman Collection and sold Sotheby's, London, 2 December 1983, lot 37, is illustrated in F. J. B. Watson, op. cit., n. 126 p. 255-256. Another, stamped both by BVRB and by the marchand ébéniste Migeon, is illustrated in P. Kjelberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIeme siècle, Paris, 2002, p. 144.
The brand EHB is that of the celebrated dealer Edward Holmes Baldock (1777-1845), who was trading as an 'Ornamental China-Dealer', 'Furniture Broker and Appraiser' and 'Foreign China and Furniture Warehouseman'. Baldock was perhaps the most influential figure in the London art market in the early 19th Century, numbering among his clients King George IV, the Dukes of Northumberland and Buccleuch and William Beckford.
A very similar table, formerly in the Wrighstman Collection and sold, Sotheby's, New York, 3 May 1986, lot 127, is illustrated in F. J. B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, New York, 1966, Vol. I, n. 132 p. 264-265.
Another table, in the Jones Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum, is illustrated in O. Brackett, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, London, 1922, n. 14 and pl. 6. A further one, with an undertier, formerly also in the Wrightsman Collection and sold Sotheby's, London, 2 December 1983, lot 37, is illustrated in F. J. B. Watson, op. cit., n. 126 p. 255-256. Another, stamped both by BVRB and by the marchand ébéniste Migeon, is illustrated in P. Kjelberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII
The brand EHB is that of the celebrated dealer Edward Holmes Baldock (1777-1845), who was trading as an 'Ornamental China-Dealer', 'Furniture Broker and Appraiser' and 'Foreign China and Furniture Warehouseman'. Baldock was perhaps the most influential figure in the London art market in the early 19th Century, numbering among his clients King George IV, the Dukes of Northumberland and Buccleuch and William Beckford.