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Lot Essay
Daniel De Loose, maître in 1767.
The table, wreathed by a waved and laurel-enriched ribbon-scroll has its top inlaid with a laurel-wreathed medallion displaying a trompe l'oeil vignette of flower vases and jars. Executed in the fashion associated with Charles Topino, maître in 1773, the pattern derives in part from the 1640s publication of antique vases issued in Stefano della Bella's 'Raccolta di Vasi diversi.', Paris circa 1646.
The same marquetry features on an unmarked table of this pattern, but lacking mounts, which was sold from the collection of Sir Lionel Phillips of Tylney Hall, Hampshire, in these Rooms, 23 April to 8 May 1913, lot 66. Its fretted gallery and laurel-festooned angle mounts feature on a marble-topped table of this pattern, with similar marquetry tray sold from the château de Fleury en Bière at Galerie Georges Petit, 6 December 1927, lot 155. The mount and frieze marquetry features on a marble-topped table by Sebastien Vie, maître in 1767, sold from the Sir Charles Clore Collection, Christie's Monaco, 6 December 1985, lot 41.
Daniel Deloose brand appears on one of three marquetry pieces of furniture with the brand of George Jansen, maître in 1767, in the Jones Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. (see nos. 65, 66 and 67).
The table, wreathed by a waved and laurel-enriched ribbon-scroll has its top inlaid with a laurel-wreathed medallion displaying a trompe l'oeil vignette of flower vases and jars. Executed in the fashion associated with Charles Topino, maître in 1773, the pattern derives in part from the 1640s publication of antique vases issued in Stefano della Bella's 'Raccolta di Vasi diversi.', Paris circa 1646.
The same marquetry features on an unmarked table of this pattern, but lacking mounts, which was sold from the collection of Sir Lionel Phillips of Tylney Hall, Hampshire, in these Rooms, 23 April to 8 May 1913, lot 66. Its fretted gallery and laurel-festooned angle mounts feature on a marble-topped table of this pattern, with similar marquetry tray sold from the château de Fleury en Bière at Galerie Georges Petit, 6 December 1927, lot 155. The mount and frieze marquetry features on a marble-topped table by Sebastien Vie, maître in 1767, sold from the Sir Charles Clore Collection, Christie's Monaco, 6 December 1985, lot 41.
Daniel Deloose brand appears on one of three marquetry pieces of furniture with the brand of George Jansen, maître in 1767, in the Jones Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. (see nos. 65, 66 and 67).