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Lot Essay
Pierre Roussel, maître in 1745.
This table top's pastoral vignette is framed by flowered trellis and triumphal trophies; the latter, uniting the weapons of Mars and Cupid, together with a sporting trophy (with a boar's head substituted for that of a stag), derive from inventions by Gilles Demarteau L'Ainé published in Plusieurs Trophées Dessinées et gravées par Demarteau l'ainé A Paris chés l'Auteur rue de la Pelterie a la cloche. Et chés Franois au Triangle d'Or Hôtel des Ursins. Avec Priv. du Roi (G. de Bellaigue, '18th Century French Furniture and its Debt to the Engraver', Apollo, January 1963, pp. 16-22, fig 5).
A related table, embellished with pastoral trophies, was formerly in the Demidoff collection at San Donato, and is now at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire (G. de Bellaigue, Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, London, 1974, vol. II, no. 95; and Bellaigue, op. cit, Apollo, January 1963, fig. 7). Another three examples of marquetry furniture depicting Demarteau's engravings and stamped by different ébénistes are recorded (G. de Bellaigue, 'Engravings and the French Eighteen Century Marqueteur-1', Burlington Magazine, May 1965, p. 246). A further related but unstamped table was sold anonymously at Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1979, lot 237.
This table top's pastoral vignette is framed by flowered trellis and triumphal trophies; the latter, uniting the weapons of Mars and Cupid, together with a sporting trophy (with a boar's head substituted for that of a stag), derive from inventions by Gilles Demarteau L'Ainé published in Plusieurs Trophées Dessinées et gravées par Demarteau l'ainé A Paris chés l'Auteur rue de la Pelterie a la cloche. Et chés Franois au Triangle d'Or Hôtel des Ursins. Avec Priv. du Roi (G. de Bellaigue, '18th Century French Furniture and its Debt to the Engraver', Apollo, January 1963, pp. 16-22, fig 5).
A related table, embellished with pastoral trophies, was formerly in the Demidoff collection at San Donato, and is now at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire (G. de Bellaigue, Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, London, 1974, vol. II, no. 95; and Bellaigue, op. cit, Apollo, January 1963, fig. 7). Another three examples of marquetry furniture depicting Demarteau's engravings and stamped by different ébénistes are recorded (G. de Bellaigue, 'Engravings and the French Eighteen Century Marqueteur-1', Burlington Magazine, May 1965, p. 246). A further related but unstamped table was sold anonymously at Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1979, lot 237.