A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD, AMARANTH AND HAREWOOD MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABBATANT

BY FRANOIS RBESTCK

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD, AMARANTH AND HAREWOOD MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABBATANT
By Franois Rbestck
The white-veined rectangular marble top with canted angles above a frieze drawer, inlaid with entrelac motif and flowerheads above a fall-front inlaid with a musical trophy framed by oak leaves and laurel sprays and surmounted by a canopy hung with draperies and centred with two doves, the reverse of the fall-front with a gilt-tooled green leather writing-surface and an interior fitted with four small drawers with floral marquetry, one of them fitted with dividers for inkwell, and with four pigeon holes, the lower doors inlaid with floral bouquets within a frame, concealing an interior fitted with one shelf, one open well and two oak drawers, the sides inlaid with a conforming entrelac frieze and two panels inlaid with floral sprays, the canted angles with simulated channeling above a peirced apron mount and on block feet, the top of the carcase stamped twice 'F. RUBESTUCK' and once 'JME'
53 in. (132 cm.) high, 32 in. (80 cm.) wide, 14 in. (35.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Franois Rbestck, matre in 1766.

Established first in rue de la Roquette, Franois Rbestck subsequently moved to rue de Charenton. Producing mainly japanned commodes and secretaires abattant, for which he was famous, he excelled as well with floral marquetry. Particularly the type of contrasting marquetry with musical trophies and draperies as on the fall-front of the secretaire here offered. A similar panel is illustrated on an encoignure by Rbestck in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Franais du XVIIIe Sicle, Paris, 1989, p. 748, ill. F.

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