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Lot Essay
With its central Bacchic mask and exaggerated bomb form, these encoignures share much in common with that attributed to Jacques Dubois (matre in 1742) in the Wallace Collection (F99 - P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, pp.311-313). It is interesting to note, therefore, that the foliate-wrapped chutes are chracteristic of Dubois and can be seen, for instance on the bois de bout marquetry bureau sold from the Alexander Collection, Christie's New York, 30 April 1999, lot 140.
A pair of encoignures of similar outline and with comparable angle mounts stamped by the marchand-bniste Adrien-Faizelet Delorme is illustrated in J. Nicolay, L'Art et la Manire des Matres Ebnistes Franais, Paris, 1956, p.141, fig.C. Another similar pair by Delorme was sold from the Lopez Tarragoya collection, Palais Gallira, Paris 15 June 1971, lot 103 and a commode in the Festetics Collection at the Muse des Arts Decoratifs in Budapest also has the same chutes.
A pair of encoignures of similar outline and with comparable angle mounts stamped by the marchand-bniste Adrien-Faizelet Delorme is illustrated in J. Nicolay, L'Art et la Manire des Matres Ebnistes Franais, Paris, 1956, p.141, fig.C. Another similar pair by Delorme was sold from the Lopez Tarragoya collection, Palais Gallira, Paris 15 June 1971, lot 103 and a commode in the Festetics Collection at the Muse des Arts Decoratifs in Budapest also has the same chutes.