Lot 46
46
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY ENCOIGNURES each with moulded serpentine Sicilian jasper top and a bowed cupboard door enclosing a shelf and inlaid with trailing foliage and end-cut marquetry on a mirrored ground framed by scrolled ormolu borders edged with rocaille, the angles mounted with pierced foliate clasps on short cabriole legs, one stamped twice, the other four times, CAREL, the top angle mounts replaced, one marble repaired

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY ENCOIGNURES each with moulded serpentine Sicilian jasper top and a bowed cupboard door enclosing a shelf and inlaid with trailing foliage and end-cut marquetry on a mirrored ground framed by scrolled ormolu borders edged with rocaille, the angles mounted with pierced foliate clasps on short cabriole legs, one stamped twice, the other four times, CAREL, the top angle mounts replaced, one marble repaired
30¾in. (78cm.) wide; 36¼in. (92cm.) high; 21¾in. (55cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

Jacques-Philippe Carel, maître in 1723

A pair of very similar encoignures by Carel, formerly in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (donated by William Randolph Hearst in 1947), was sold Christie's New York, 5 November 1986, lot 196. A related matched pair of marquetry commodes by Carel with similar end-cut marquetry is in the Frick Collection, New York

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