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Lot Essay
Pierre Denizot, maître in 1740.
Either Gérard Peridiez, maître in 1761, or his brother Louis, maître in 1764.
Although neither Gérard nor Louis Peridiez are known to have been marchand-ébénistes, Louis's stamp has also been recorded on menuiserie, suggesting that he probably was also a marchand.
The distinctive 'naif' marquetry of teapots, vessels, flower-filled vases and urns, inspired by the ornamental borders of Chinese coromandel lacquer screens, is characteristic of the work of the ébéniste and specialist marqueteur Charles Topino. Based in the rue Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Topino - as his daybook reveals - is known to have supplied marquetry panels of this type for his confrères, the marchand-ébénistes, who then sold them on after as their own (A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Revolution, Paris, 1989, p.319.).
This model of bonheur-du-jour was clearly developed by 1775, as the ébéniste du Roi Gilles Joubert (d. 1775) delivered 'Un petit secrétaire de bois de rose représentant des paniers de fleurs, fruits, theyers et tasses façon de la Chine...' to the Garde-Meuble for the use of the comte d'Artois at Compiègne (A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, Paris, 1989, p. 320).
A related bonheur-du-jour by Charles Topino in the National museum in Stockholm is illustrated in S. Barbier Sainte Marie, 'Charles Topino', L'Estampille L'Objet d'Art, 10 (1999), p. 38, fig. 5. Further related examples were sold from the collection of Mrs James de Rothschild, Christie's London, 2 December 1971, lot 129, and anonymously, Christie's London, 9 December 1993, lot 86 (£72,000).
The Sèvres-style plaques added to the frieze are typical of the embellishments of the English marchand-mercier Edward Holmes Baldock (d.1846). Byng patronised Baldock as early as 1829 (see lot 35).
Either Gérard Peridiez, maître in 1761, or his brother Louis, maître in 1764.
Although neither Gérard nor Louis Peridiez are known to have been marchand-ébénistes, Louis's stamp has also been recorded on menuiserie, suggesting that he probably was also a marchand.
The distinctive 'naif' marquetry of teapots, vessels, flower-filled vases and urns, inspired by the ornamental borders of Chinese coromandel lacquer screens, is characteristic of the work of the ébéniste and specialist marqueteur Charles Topino. Based in the rue Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Topino - as his daybook reveals - is known to have supplied marquetry panels of this type for his confrères, the marchand-ébénistes, who then sold them on after as their own (A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Revolution, Paris, 1989, p.319.).
This model of bonheur-du-jour was clearly developed by 1775, as the ébéniste du Roi Gilles Joubert (d. 1775) delivered 'Un petit secrétaire de bois de rose représentant des paniers de fleurs, fruits, theyers et tasses façon de la Chine...' to the Garde-Meuble for the use of the comte d'Artois at Compiègne (A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, Paris, 1989, p. 320).
A related bonheur-du-jour by Charles Topino in the National museum in Stockholm is illustrated in S. Barbier Sainte Marie, 'Charles Topino', L'Estampille L'Objet d'Art, 10 (1999), p. 38, fig. 5. Further related examples were sold from the collection of Mrs James de Rothschild, Christie's London, 2 December 1971, lot 129, and anonymously, Christie's London, 9 December 1993, lot 86 (£72,000).
The Sèvres-style plaques added to the frieze are typical of the embellishments of the English marchand-mercier Edward Holmes Baldock (d.1846). Byng patronised Baldock as early as 1829 (see lot 35).