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Lot Essay
This bureau plat belongs to a group of very similar bureaux plats stamped by Jacques Dubois including one illustrated in G. Janneau, Les Petits Meubles, Paris, 1977, p. XXI, one from the Cartier collection (sold Sotheby's Monaco, 25 November 1979, lot 146), one sold Sotheby's New York, 28 March 1987, lot 88 (with the same mounts flanking the central drawer), and one sold by the trustees of the late Mrs. S. Metcalfe, Sotheby's London, 15 June 1990, lot 23 (with the same angle mounts).
Another from this group, unstamped but very close in shape and with identical mounts to the angles and flanking the central drawer, from the Wrightsman Collection is illustrated F. J. B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Furniture, Vol II, pp 298-299, no. 147.
The model is also associated with the work of Bernard II van Risen Burgh (mâitre in 1730) such as examples in the Shaefer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one illustrated in H. Honour, Cabinet-Makers & Furniture Designers, London, 1969, p. 105, and another in J. Nicolay, L'Art et la Manière des Maître Ébénistes Français, Paris, 1956, p. 85, fig. E. For a further discussion of related desks by Dubois and B.V.R.B. see A. Boutemy, Meubles Français Anonymes du XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1973, pp. 45-56.
Another from this group, unstamped but very close in shape and with identical mounts to the angles and flanking the central drawer, from the Wrightsman Collection is illustrated F. J. B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Furniture, Vol II, pp 298-299, no. 147.
The model is also associated with the work of Bernard II van Risen Burgh (mâitre in 1730) such as examples in the Shaefer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one illustrated in H. Honour, Cabinet-Makers & Furniture Designers, London, 1969, p. 105, and another in J. Nicolay, L'Art et la Manière des Maître Ébénistes Français, Paris, 1956, p. 85, fig. E. For a further discussion of related desks by Dubois and B.V.R.B. see A. Boutemy, Meubles Français Anonymes du XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1973, pp. 45-56.