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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND BOIS-DE-BOUT MARQUETRY CARTONNIER

IN THE MANNER OF BERNARD II VAN RISEN BURGH, CIRCA 1745

Details

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND BOIS-DE-BOUT MARQUETRY CARTONNIER
In the manner of Bernard II van Risen Burgh, Circa 1745
The mirror-veneered rectangular top above a modulated incurved frieze decorated with crossed branches above five shaped pigeon-holes with bead-and-chain decorated dividers on acanthus-sheathed scrolled feet, the serpentine sides similarly-decorated, the base with molded edge above a pair of rectangular panels, each side with a similarly-decorated serpentine door, above a scrolled apron and cabriole legs with scrolled rocaille and acanthus sabots, each section inscribed in red paint CC-32, the stand inscribed in black paint 5, with two printed labels Museum für Kunsthandwerk/Frankfurt am Main/GR 1270, also bearing a paper label inscribed M185009/3 FRN, and another inscribed 233033
53¾in. (136.5cm.) high, 35¼in. (89.5cm.) wide, 15in. (38cm.) deep

Provenance

The Collection of Baron Eric von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt.
Seized and placed in the Museum für Künsthandwerk, Frankfurt.
Restituted to Baron Eric von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt, after World War II, and subsequently sold.
The Collection of René Fribourg, sold Sotheby's London, 28 June 1963, lot 215.
The Collection of Henry Ford II, sold Sotheby's New York, 25 February 1978, lot 93.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 22 May 1997, lot 214 ($40,250).

Lot Essay

A similar Japanese lacquer cartonnier stamped B.V.R.B. and raised on a stand is in the J. Paul Getty Museum (illustrated in A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Francais de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p. 196, pl. 188). Another cartonnier with floral marquetry to the sides on a simpler concave-fronted stand, attributed to B.V.R.B. by Francis Watson in the 1956 Wallace Collection catalogue and then to Latz by Henry Hawley in 1970 (H. Hawley, 'Jean-Pierre Latz, Cabinetmaker', The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, September/October 1970, pp. 203-59) was found to be stamped LATZ in a 1972 restoration (P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection Catalogue, London, 1996, Vol. II, no. 189 (F82), pp. 915-19). A third example, incorporating a clock is illustrated in Janneau & P. Devinoy, Le Meuble léger en France, Paris, 1952, pl. 50. Comparable cartonniers on stand were sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 19-20 June 1992, lot 655, and from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld, Christie's Monaco, 29 April 2000, lot 330. The Lagerfeld cartonnier, formerly owned by the Rothschilds at the Château de Ferrière, was stamped by Denis Genty (maître in 1754).

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