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Lot Essay
Bernard II van Risen Burgh, matre in 1730
The 'C' Couronn poinon was a tax mark used in France between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.
This superlative table ecrire belongs to a group of tables of the same profile and proportion, all by B.V.R.B., and with closely related marquetry and mounts. One table stamped 'B.V.R.B.' of remarkable similarity, formerly in the collection of Rodolphe Kann, Paris, the other attributed to B.V.R.B. and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (F. J. B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, New York, 1966, cat. nos.152 and 153 respectively). Another in the Fondation Jean-Louis Prvost, Geneva, is of almost identical design to the Alexander table (A. Nicoid, et. al., Mille Objets pour Genve, Un Patrimoine Enrichi, Geneva, 1989, cat. no. 33). Other related examples, all of which are stamped 'B.V.R.B.' but which may well duplicate some of the above include a table formerly in the collection of Madame Dubernet-Douine (sold Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 11-12 April 1946, lot 141); another from the collection of Madame Louis Burat (sold Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 17-18 June 1937, lot 142); and a third sold from the collection of Paul Dutasta (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3-4 June 1926, lot 146).
The success of this model, moreover, is underlined not only by the fact that several examples were made, but also by the fact that the model was also copied by B.V.R.B.'s contemporary Joseph Baumhauer (matre in 1745), illustrated in D. Alcouffe, et al., La Folie d'Artois, Paris, 1988, p. 201).
The 'C' Couronn poinon was a tax mark used in France between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.
This superlative table ecrire belongs to a group of tables of the same profile and proportion, all by B.V.R.B., and with closely related marquetry and mounts. One table stamped 'B.V.R.B.' of remarkable similarity, formerly in the collection of Rodolphe Kann, Paris, the other attributed to B.V.R.B. and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (F. J. B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, New York, 1966, cat. nos.152 and 153 respectively). Another in the Fondation Jean-Louis Prvost, Geneva, is of almost identical design to the Alexander table (A. Nicoid, et. al., Mille Objets pour Genve, Un Patrimoine Enrichi, Geneva, 1989, cat. no. 33). Other related examples, all of which are stamped 'B.V.R.B.' but which may well duplicate some of the above include a table formerly in the collection of Madame Dubernet-Douine (sold Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 11-12 April 1946, lot 141); another from the collection of Madame Louis Burat (sold Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 17-18 June 1937, lot 142); and a third sold from the collection of Paul Dutasta (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3-4 June 1926, lot 146).
The success of this model, moreover, is underlined not only by the fact that several examples were made, but also by the fact that the model was also copied by B.V.R.B.'s contemporary Joseph Baumhauer (matre in 1745), illustrated in D. Alcouffe, et al., La Folie d'Artois, Paris, 1988, p. 201).