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Lot Essay
Charles Topino, maître in 1773.
The distinctive trompe l'oeil marquetry, inspired by Chinese coromandel lacquer screens, was popularised by the ébéniste Charles Topino, of the faubourg Saint-Antoine. Topino specialized in 'sujets chinois' and 'poeteries chinoises' in the manner seen on lacquered screens, and he lists such marquetry during the 1770s in his Livre-journal.
Related tables in the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Detroit Institute of Art are illustrated in S. Barbier Sainte Maire, 'Charles Topino', L'Objet d'Art, October 1999 (figs. 6 and 23), while another very similar table stamped by Topino is illustrated in N. de Reyniès, Le Mobilier Domestique, Paris, 1987, p. 350, ill. 1250, and a closely related table à ouvrage with almost identical marquetry panels by François Henri Bouchette was sold from the collection of Sir Michael Sobell, Christie's, London, 23 June 1994, lot 52.
The distinctive trompe l'oeil marquetry, inspired by Chinese coromandel lacquer screens, was popularised by the ébéniste Charles Topino, of the faubourg Saint-Antoine. Topino specialized in 'sujets chinois' and 'poeteries chinoises' in the manner seen on lacquered screens, and he lists such marquetry during the 1770s in his Livre-journal.
Related tables in the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Detroit Institute of Art are illustrated in S. Barbier Sainte Maire, 'Charles Topino', L'Objet d'Art, October 1999 (figs. 6 and 23), while another very similar table stamped by Topino is illustrated in N. de Reyniès, Le Mobilier Domestique, Paris, 1987, p. 350, ill. 1250, and a closely related table à ouvrage with almost identical marquetry panels by François Henri Bouchette was sold from the collection of Sir Michael Sobell, Christie's, London, 23 June 1994, lot 52.