A REGENCY ORMOLU AND LA COURTILLE PORCELAIN-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD SIDE CABINET

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A REGENCY ORMOLU AND LA COURTILLE PORCELAIN-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD SIDE CABINET

The mirror-backed rectangular superstructure with pierced Greek-key galleried white marble shelf supported by a rosewood column with ball finials and Greek-key branches, the rectangular white marble top above a Greek-key moulded frieze and a central door inset with a concave circular La Courtille porcelain plaque depicting St. Peters and the Castel Sant Angelo from the River Tiber, enclosed within a beaded moulded frame and radiating ray-veneered outer frame mounted with laurel angle-sprays and Grecian-key fret frame with ringed lion-masks, the interior with one adjustable shelf, the canted angles in the form of tapering amaranth Egyptian herms with striated panels and foliate bracket supports, the sides with further ray-veneered oval panels, on turned tapering foliate and Greek-key mounted lignum vitae feet with inset castors, the porcelain circa 1800 and with the La Courtille mark, with printed storage label to the reverse GARDE-MEUBLE TAILLEUR FILS 30 77, the right-hand lion-mask moved, the lock stamped 'GR PATENT' beneath a crown
24¼in. (61.5cm.) wide; 45in. (114cm.) high; 13in. (33cm.) deep

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Advertised by Norman Adams in December, 1948
Margaret Thompson Biddle

拍品專文

This rosewood cheveret cabinet, supported on Roman acanthus-wrapped columnar feet, has hollowed corners filled with acanthus-wrapped tazze supporting canted Egyptian striated herms with nemes-dressed nymph heads and feet. Its door's ray-veneer with Grecian ribbon-fret radiates from a concave landscape medallion of French porcelain depicting the Castel Sant Angelo, executed at the La Courtille factory in Paris. Founded by the partners Loure, Russinger and Pouyat, the La Courtille factory specialised in pictorial plaques and flourished from 1773-1800.

Its design corresponds to that of a French style marble-topped bookcase-commode enriched in the Egyptian manner which is illustrated in F. Collard, Regency furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p. 225). Undoubtedly executed by the same hand, the latter's shelf-flanked commode with Egyptian hermed pilasters is accompanied by Egyptian lioness-masks and an Isis winged-globe uraei such as featured on a chimney-piece in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture and Interior Decoration, 1807, while the door also features a sun-ray disc framed by Grecian-fret ribbons, such as George Smith illustrated in his Collection of Designs for Household Furniture, 1808, pls. 77 and 133. The fashion for such Grecian ribbon-fret can also be seen in the designs of Frederick Crace for the Marine Pavilion at Brighton (J. Morley, The making of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, London, 1984, fig. 109, cat. no. 107)