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Philippe-Claude Montigny, maître in 1766.
This exquisite encrier, with its very pronounced Vitruvian scroll mount, is an early example of a small-scale item in the so-called goût grec style, the early phase of French neo-classicism.
Around 1754-1756, the first experimental items of furniture in this style were conceived and produced, notably the great ebony bureau plat made for Ange-Laurent Lalive de Jully, probably by Joseph Baumhauer (died 1772) and Philippe Caffiéri (1714-1774) to the designs of Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (1714-1759), which is now at the Musée Condé at Chantilly (S. Eriksen, Early neo-classicism in France, London 1974, figs. 85-89).
Within a few years, this bold manner had gained wide popularity, and in 1763 Baron de Grimm was writing in Paris: tout se fait aujourd'hui à la grecque (ibid, p. 264). An encrier with identical Vitruvian scroll mounts, formerly in the collection of Clare, Duchess of Sutherland (d.1998) was sold Christie's, London, 6 July 2006, lot 36.
This exquisite encrier, with its very pronounced Vitruvian scroll mount, is an early example of a small-scale item in the so-called goût grec style, the early phase of French neo-classicism.
Around 1754-1756, the first experimental items of furniture in this style were conceived and produced, notably the great ebony bureau plat made for Ange-Laurent Lalive de Jully, probably by Joseph Baumhauer (died 1772) and Philippe Caffiéri (1714-1774) to the designs of Louis-Joseph Le Lorrain (1714-1759), which is now at the Musée Condé at Chantilly (S. Eriksen, Early neo-classicism in France, London 1974, figs. 85-89).
Within a few years, this bold manner had gained wide popularity, and in 1763 Baron de Grimm was writing in Paris: tout se fait aujourd'hui à la grecque (ibid, p. 264). An encrier with identical Vitruvian scroll mounts, formerly in the collection of Clare, Duchess of Sutherland (d.1998) was sold Christie's, London, 6 July 2006, lot 36.