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Lot Essay
UNE MARQUETERIE DE TREILLAGE à POIS
This distinctive pattern of dot-trellis parquetry or 'treillage à pois' is very characteristic of the oeuvre of RVLC (maître in 1755) and widely accepted as having been conceived by the celebrated ébéniste. A number of recorded examples by RVLC feature the same marquetry with ebony dots on a trellis-decorated bois citronnier ground. These include a virtually identical table, albeit of circular form, sold from the collection of Jacques and Henriette Schumann, Christie's, Paris, 30 September 2003, lot 384 (EUR76,375 with premium), and another of exact same form and proportions but lacking floral mounts to legs, sold from the René Fribourg Collection, Sotheby's, London, 17-18 October 1963, lot 788 (and again Christie's, London, 11 June 1992, lot 147).
RVLC AND CARLIN: A RECIPROCAL INSPIRATION
Although not exclusive to its inventor, the exact same marquetry pattern can be found on related tables en chiffonière and tables à écrire by Martin Carlin. Both RVLC and Carlin worked extensively for the celebrated marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier (and his successor Dominique Daguerre) and the two ébénistes, also close friends, did use each other's leitmotifs interchangeably in their oeuvres. Clarisse Roinet illustrates a guéridon-à deux-plateaux by Carlin, featuring the distinctive marqueterie à barbeaux (or floret inset trellis marquetry) also recognized as having most certainly been conceived by RVLC. Conversely, the author illustrates a two-tier gueridon by RVLC decorated with the same dotted trellis marquetry as on the present table, but featuring the outcurved legs or 'pieds en doucine' often found in Carlin's production.
Examples by Carlin related to the present lot include a table formerly at Pavlovsk and subsequently sold Christie's, Geneva, 8 May 1973, lot 61; another sold Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 1984, lot 167, while a further example attributed to the ébéniste was sold Christie's, London, 1 December 1983, lot 29. A further table by Carlin, fitted with a Sèvres porcelain top and formerly at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, was sold from the property of the late Nicholas Meynell, Esq., Christie's, London, 9 June 1994, lot 67. Interestingly, a table by Claude-Charles Saunier, formerly in the collections of Mesdames, daughters of Louis XV, at the château de Bellevue, mounted with a Sèvres plaque, sold in the Wildenstein/Ojjeh sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 25-26 June 1979, lot 171, and another by Martin Carlin, fitted with a pietra dura plaque and more lavish mounts, sold from the Dodge Collection, Christie's, London, 24 June 1971, lot 122.
FURTHER RELATED EXAMPLES BY RVLC
The present table-à-écrire is further related to another inlaid with the floret-inset trellis marquetry so dear to RVLC, in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury (ill. C. Roinet, op.cit, p.95). The latter table is slightly earlier in date as probably executed by the ébéniste circa 1770 as the outcurved legs still very much in the prominent Louis XV taste testify.
Also comparable to the present lot is a table-en-chiffonière executed by RVLC circa 1775, now in the Museé Nissim de Camondo in Paris (ill. in The Nissim de Camondo Museum, Paris, 1991, p.29), while a table virtually identical to the Camondo example, attributed to the ébéniste and most probably retailed by the marchand-ébéniste Gruber, was sold 'The Alexander Collection', Christie's, New York, 30 April 1999, lot 90 ($365,500 with premium) and again Christie's, New York, 18 May 2006, lot 785 ($408,000 with premium).
For further information on RVLC, please see the catalogue note to lot 118.
This distinctive pattern of dot-trellis parquetry or 'treillage à pois' is very characteristic of the oeuvre of RVLC (maître in 1755) and widely accepted as having been conceived by the celebrated ébéniste. A number of recorded examples by RVLC feature the same marquetry with ebony dots on a trellis-decorated bois citronnier ground. These include a virtually identical table, albeit of circular form, sold from the collection of Jacques and Henriette Schumann, Christie's, Paris, 30 September 2003, lot 384 (EUR76,375 with premium), and another of exact same form and proportions but lacking floral mounts to legs, sold from the René Fribourg Collection, Sotheby's, London, 17-18 October 1963, lot 788 (and again Christie's, London, 11 June 1992, lot 147).
RVLC AND CARLIN: A RECIPROCAL INSPIRATION
Although not exclusive to its inventor, the exact same marquetry pattern can be found on related tables en chiffonière and tables à écrire by Martin Carlin. Both RVLC and Carlin worked extensively for the celebrated marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier (and his successor Dominique Daguerre) and the two ébénistes, also close friends, did use each other's leitmotifs interchangeably in their oeuvres. Clarisse Roinet illustrates a guéridon-à deux-plateaux by Carlin, featuring the distinctive marqueterie à barbeaux (or floret inset trellis marquetry) also recognized as having most certainly been conceived by RVLC. Conversely, the author illustrates a two-tier gueridon by RVLC decorated with the same dotted trellis marquetry as on the present table, but featuring the outcurved legs or 'pieds en doucine' often found in Carlin's production.
Examples by Carlin related to the present lot include a table formerly at Pavlovsk and subsequently sold Christie's, Geneva, 8 May 1973, lot 61; another sold Sotheby's, New York, 17 November 1984, lot 167, while a further example attributed to the ébéniste was sold Christie's, London, 1 December 1983, lot 29. A further table by Carlin, fitted with a Sèvres porcelain top and formerly at Temple Newsam House, Leeds, was sold from the property of the late Nicholas Meynell, Esq., Christie's, London, 9 June 1994, lot 67. Interestingly, a table by Claude-Charles Saunier, formerly in the collections of Mesdames, daughters of Louis XV, at the château de Bellevue, mounted with a Sèvres plaque, sold in the Wildenstein/Ojjeh sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 25-26 June 1979, lot 171, and another by Martin Carlin, fitted with a pietra dura plaque and more lavish mounts, sold from the Dodge Collection, Christie's, London, 24 June 1971, lot 122.
FURTHER RELATED EXAMPLES BY RVLC
The present table-à-écrire is further related to another inlaid with the floret-inset trellis marquetry so dear to RVLC, in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury (ill. C. Roinet, op.cit, p.95). The latter table is slightly earlier in date as probably executed by the ébéniste circa 1770 as the outcurved legs still very much in the prominent Louis XV taste testify.
Also comparable to the present lot is a table-en-chiffonière executed by RVLC circa 1775, now in the Museé Nissim de Camondo in Paris (ill. in The Nissim de Camondo Museum, Paris, 1991, p.29), while a table virtually identical to the Camondo example, attributed to the ébéniste and most probably retailed by the marchand-ébéniste Gruber, was sold 'The Alexander Collection', Christie's, New York, 30 April 1999, lot 90 ($365,500 with premium) and again Christie's, New York, 18 May 2006, lot 785 ($408,000 with premium).
For further information on RVLC, please see the catalogue note to lot 118.