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A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY AND BOULLE MARQUETRY MEUBLE D'APPUI

CIRCA 1710, CONVERTED INTO A BAS D'ARMOIRE CIRCA 1800-15 WITH THE ADDITION OF SOME MOUNTS

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A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY AND BOULLE MARQUETRY MEUBLE D'APPUI
CIRCA 1710, CONVERTED INTO A BAS D'ARMOIRE CIRCA 1800-15 WITH THE ADDITION OF SOME MOUNTS
The Empire rectangular portor marble top set within a moulded border above a panelled frieze fitted with two drawers decorated with strapwork cartouches and trailing foliage and mounted with shield-shaped escutcheons with confronting cockerel heads and flanked by rectangular paterae, above a pair of panelled doors centred by the standing figures of Ceres and Dionysus depicted holding a sheaf of corn and a cup respectively, within strapwork and scrolling foliate surrounds and trailing foliate bands headed by espagnolette masks and mounted to the angles with floral paterae with drapery-hung husks, the panelled sides mounted with figures of Flora and Boreas, the angles mounted with floral paterae, on a moulded stepped plinth with remains of blue-bordered oval label with rectangular label inscribed '3739' and remains of rectangular label beneath, originally with turned feet and an upper section, the plinth circa 1800.
43¾ in. (111.5 cm.) high; 46¼ in. (117.5 cm.) wide; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep

來源

Acquired from Léon Helft, 16 January 1924.

注意事項

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拍品專文

The exact proportions of this bas d'armoire with the Seasons is not apparently recorded in 18th Century sales catalogues. Those that are tend to be either narrower (89cm wide - such as those in the Julliot, Julienne, St Jullien & Dubois sales), or much larger (150cm wide - such as those in the Lambert, Calonne, Gomand sales). The only refernce that almost correpsonds is that in a sale of 21 june 1784:
"205. Une armoire de marqueterie, contre partie, elle est à deux batans, & garnie de deux tiroirs pris dans la frise, & à dessus d'alaâtre oriental, entouré d'un bord de bronze. Hauteur 35 pouces (94 cm); longueur 38 pouces (102cm), profondeur 17 pouces.
Only very slightly lower than the Wildensein example, this does not mention the Boulle mounts of the Seasons, and in that these figures of Ceres and Dionysus do not relate to the marquetry decoration, it is possible that they too are introductions by an early 19th Century marchand such as Julliot.