A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD EMBROIDERY FRAME ('METIER A BRODER')

CIRCA 1755

Details

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD EMBROIDERY FRAME ('METIER A BRODER')
Circa 1755
The rectangular adjustable frame with embroidery hooks, on shaped trestle supports mounted with swivelling workboxes with tambour covers, joined by a grooved stretcher, lacking corner brackets, stamped BRIAR JME MDP
30in. (76cm.) high, 36in. (91.5cm.) wide, 16in. (40.5cm.) deep

Exhibited

Memphis, Tennessee, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 10 March - 15 April, 1990 and new York, Rosenberg & Stiebel, 3 May - 15 June, 1990, Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour: A Love Affair with Style, p. 66, no. 44

Lot Essay

A similar embroidery frame is depicted in a portrait of Madame de Pompadour by François-Hubert Drouais (National Gallery, London) dated to 1764. A close example is in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lyon, illustrated in N. de Reyniès, Le Mobilier Domestique: Vocabulaire Typologique, Paris, 1987, vol. II, p. 924, fig. 3538. Another similar frame stamped by Canabas at Versailles is illustrated ibid, p. 924, fig. 3539. The stamp of Briar appears to be unrecorded.