A CONSULAT ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE MOUNTED PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY ACAJOU MOUCHETE SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT

CIRCA 1799-1804, ATTRIBUTED TO BERNARD MOLITOR

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A CONSULAT ORMOLU AND PATINATED-BRONZE MOUNTED PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY ACAJOU MOUCHETE SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
Circa 1799-1804, Attributed to Bernard Molitor
The black marble top with inlaid white line surround above a frieze drawer mounted with a central plaque depicting classical figures and putti harvesting and burning wheat and with ceres riding in a lion-drawn chariot, over the hinged all-front opening to reveal to a leather-lined writing-surface and enclosing two shelves above seven drawers, the removable interior fitment concealing four secret compartments, the whole flanked classical female caryatid uprights, the lower section with square columnar supports and a mirrored backplate with later plate on a rectangular platform base, the reverse with a printed paper label N C Hoegteiling, Den Haag/Bergplaats voor Inboedels and inscribed in ink F. Malhon (?), Burgemeester, Manlaan 13, Breda No. 4 and the marble with an identical label but identified as No. 5, the marble possibly later
50½in. (128cm.) high, 32¼in. (82cm.) wide, 15½in. (39.5cm) deep

來源

Possibly F. Malhon (?), Burgemeester, Hanlaan 13, Breda.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's Zurich, 10 December, 1997, lot 839.

拍品專文

Bernard Molitor, maître in 1787.

This secretaire à abattant or bonheur-du-jour is almost identical to one illustrated U. Leben, Molitor, London, 1992, p. 145, fig. 147, which was exhibited at the Galerie d'Art, Luxembourg, Bernard Molitor, October-December 1995 (Catalogue, p. 95, fig. 39).

The relief panel, which is seen on a number of pieces by Molitor, is in the manner of Claude-Michel Clodion (1738-1814).