A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY ENCOIGNURES

Property from the Estate of Beatrice Lagrave Maltby

細節

A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY ENCOIGNURES
MID-18TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO BVRB

Each with triangular moulded brêche d'Alèp marble top above a pair of cabinet doors inlaid sans traverse with cartouches enclosing bois-de-bout floral sprays centering a pierced foliate-cast lockplate within scrolling foliate encadrements above a waved apron, on bracket feet-35in. (89cm.) high, 31in. (78.7cm.) wide, 22 3/4in. (58cm.) deep

Bernard II Van Risamburgh, called BVRB, maître before 1730 (2)

來源

French & Co., 1955
The Estate of Gladys van Heukelom, Santa Barbara, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 12-13 May 1967, lot 243

拍品專文

These encoignures can be firmly attributed to BVRB on the basis of their distinctive encadrements as well as the bois-de-bout floral marquetry. The encadrements with their tendril-cast vines are found on a pair of encoignures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, vol. I, 1966, pp.170-172, no. 100A-B). The same mounts appear on the base of a cartonnier formerly in the collection of the Chinese Pavillion at Oranienbaum, St.Petersburg, and illustrated in Meubles Français Anonymes du XVIIIe Siècle, 1973, p. 69.The center mount which is reminiscent of the work of Charles Cressent can be found on a marquetry encoignure stamped BVRB formerly in the Bloch-Levalois collection, illustrated in G.Janneau, Les Petits Meubles, 1977, pl. XXXI, no. 1, and sold Paris, 26 March 1924, lot 128. Another pair also in floral marquetry was formerly in Schloss Königstein, circa 1930.