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AN EARLY LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND FLORAL MARQUETRY MEUBLE D'ENTRE DEUX

CIRCA 1740, ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE MIGEON

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AN EARLY LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND FLORAL MARQUETRY MEUBLE D'ENTRE DEUX
Circa 1740, Attributed to Pierre Migeon
Inlaid overall with ebony and boxwood stringing, the molded, undercut campan melangé marble top of arc-en-arbalette form, the front also of arc-en-arbalette form with two panelled arched doors, each decorated with foliate branches and flowerheads including tulips and lilies issuing from a rocky base, the reverse of the doors decorated in rosewood within a fruitwood and amaranth border and fitted with an intricate ormolu and steel locking-mechanism decorated with bird's heads, enclosing a panelled red-painted oak interior with two adjustable amaranth-fronted oak shelves, the doors headed by berried foliage within confronting C-scrolls and flanked by rounded angles with rocaille C-scroll clasps, the sides each with two raised concave-cornered rectangular panels inlaid with conforming foliate sprays, the bead and reed collar above a shaped apron with central pomegranate spray clasp, on cabriole legs with foliate C-scroll and cabochon clasps, the back with fragmentary label for the Art Treasures Exhibition of 1955, the base inscribed in ink 3, stamped MIGEON JME but probably of a later date, lacking sabots to back feet
45¾in. (116.5cm.) high, 35¼in. (89.5cm.) wide, 15in. (38cm.) deep

来源

The René Fribourg Collection, 11 East 84th Street, New York, sold Sotheby's London, 28 June 1963, lot 200 (£9,000; $25,200 to Madame L. Uhlmann).
Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 7 February 1990, lot 159.

展览

New York, Parke Bernet Galleries, Art Treasures Exhibition, 1955, no. 280

注意事项

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拍品专文

Pierre II Migeon, maître in 1739.

This exceptional armoire basse, with its complicated locking-mechanism, was undoubtedly commissioned to store confidential private papers.

The son of the ébéniste Pierre I Migeon, Pierre II Migeon is thought to have started working in his father's atelier in the faubourg Saint-Antoîne in 1726. As the livre-journal of 1730-36 testifies, their establishment enjoyed considerable prosperity, with no less that 9 separate locations and a clientèle that included the duchesse de Bourbon, the duc d'Orléans, the duchesse de Rohan and, in 1740, the Menus Plaisirs, followed shortly after by the garde-meuble de la Couronne on behalf of Madame de Pompadour. A marchand-ébéniste, Pierre II Migeon worked with Topino, R.V.L.C., Duval, Mondon, Criard, Macret, Péridiez etc..