A LOUIS XVI TULIPWOOD, FRUITWOOD AND MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE À ABATTANT

CIRCA 1771, BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS HACHE

Details

A LOUIS XVI TULIPWOOD, FRUITWOOD AND MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE À ABATTANT
Circa 1771, by Jean-François Hache
With later brèche d'alèp marble top, the fall-front decorated with a swagged classical urn opening to reveal an interior with seven drawers, above two doors decorated with floral bouquet-filled medallions, enclosing five drawers, on cabriole legs, stamped HACHE FILS A GRENOBLE, with printed trade label of Jean-François Hache dated 1771
49¼in. (125cm.) high, 17¾in. (45cm.) wide

Literature

R. Fontvieille, La Dynastie des Hache, Grenoble, 1974, p. 87.

Sale room notice

Please note this secretaire will be included in a forthcoming book about the Hache family being published by Pierre Rouge.

Lot Essay

Jean-François Hache (1730-1796), the fourth of the twelve children of Pierre Hache, is the best known of this dynasty of ébénistes. Starting in his father's workshop, he set up on his own around 1754, producing both luxury and everday items of furniture. The trade label fixed on this piece corresponds to that documented by R. Fontvieille, op cit, as No. 7 out of the thirteen different labels used at different dates by this maker. He used this label in both 1771 and 1772.