Lot 15
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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND IVORY-INLAID TULIPWOOD MARQUETRY GUERIDON
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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND IVORY-INLAID TULIPWOOD MARQUETRY GUERIDON

BY JEAN CHRYSOSTOME STUMPFF

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND IVORY-INLAID TULIPWOOD MARQUETRY GUERIDON
By Jean Chrysostome Stumpff
The circular top with pierced entrelac gallery and inlaid with a central village scene surrounded by floral entrelac, above a tambour door inlaid with trophies of Music and Science, enclosing four drawers with simulated panels, the side panels inlaid with music and hunting tropies, on cabriole legs, joined by an undertier inlaid with a dove, on foliated sabots, stamped 'J. STUMPFF' and 'JME'
30¾ in. (78 cm.) high; 15 in. (38 cm.) diameter
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Lot Essay

Jean Chrysostome Stumpff, maître in 1766.

Established in rue Saint-Nicolas, where he is recorded to have remained all his working life, Jean Stumpff worked particularly in the Louis XV and transitional styles, and is particularly known for his trompe-l'oeil parquetry found on his late Louis XV pieces.
A virtually identical gueridon by Stumpff, with only some minor variations to the marquetry and with additional corner mounts, is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 828.

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