Lot Essay
Roger Van der Cruse, dit Lacroix, maître in 1749.
The brand of the initials 'PC' flanking the Cross of Lorraine, included within a shield and surmounted by a ducal coronet, remains unidentified. However, a suite of unstamped Louis XVI fauteuils d'encoignures, sold in Paris, Couturier Nicolay, 30 June 1989, lot 182, were branded with the same marque au feu. These chairs also displayed another 'PC' brand surmounted by a crown of a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, which suggests that they were possibly executed for export to Germany.
Several bonheur du jours by 'RVLC' of this celebrated model, but of marquetry rather than parquetry, are recorded - one, from the Kress Bequest, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; another, sold from the collection of Derek Fitzgerald at Sotheby's London, 22 November 1963, lot 171, was resold anonymously at Sotheby's London, 25 June 1982; while a final example from the Olden Collection was illustrated in Connaissance des Arts, November 1975.
The brand of the initials 'PC' flanking the Cross of Lorraine, included within a shield and surmounted by a ducal coronet, remains unidentified. However, a suite of unstamped Louis XVI fauteuils d'encoignures, sold in Paris, Couturier Nicolay, 30 June 1989, lot 182, were branded with the same marque au feu. These chairs also displayed another 'PC' brand surmounted by a crown of a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, which suggests that they were possibly executed for export to Germany.
Several bonheur du jours by 'RVLC' of this celebrated model, but of marquetry rather than parquetry, are recorded - one, from the Kress Bequest, is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; another, sold from the collection of Derek Fitzgerald at Sotheby's London, 22 November 1963, lot 171, was resold anonymously at Sotheby's London, 25 June 1982; while a final example from the Olden Collection was illustrated in Connaissance des Arts, November 1975.