Lot 158
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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD, SYCAMORE AND MARQUETRY TABLE EN ROGNON
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD, SYCAMORE AND MARQUETRY TABLE EN ROGNON

CIRCA 1760, STAMPED J.L. COSSON AND JME TWICE

Details
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD, SYCAMORE AND MARQUETRY TABLE EN ROGNON
Circa 1760, Stamped J.L. COSSON and JME twice
Decorated with floral bouquets and trails, of kidney shape, the front with tambour shutter enclosing three drawers decorated sans traverse with flowers, one side with two hinged drawers, on cabriole legs, with the brand for the château de Chanteloup
29¼in (75.5cm.) high, 22¾in. (57.5cm.) wide, 15¾in. (40cm.) deep
Provenance
Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre, Château de Chanteloup
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 17 May 1968, lot 69 Martha Baird Rockefeller, sold Parke-Bernet, New York, 23 October 1971, lot 623

Jacques Laurent Cosson, maître in 1765.

Lot Essay

The brand on this table indicates that it formed part of the collection of Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre (1725-1793) at the château de Chanteloup. The son of the Comte de Toulouse, (the illegitimate son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan) his son married the princesse de Lamballe while his daughter married the duc d'Orléans. In 1737 on the death of his father he succeeded to the post of Admiral de France which accounts for the presence of an anchor in his inventory brands. The duc de Penthièvre acquired the château de Chanteloup late in his life in 1785 from the estate of the duc de Choiseul having been prevailed upon to sell his birthplace the château de Rambouillet to Louis XVI in 1783 (see G. De Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Furniture and Gilt Bronzes, 1974, p. 600).