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Lot Essay
Jacques Dubois, maître in 1742.
This bureau plat belongs to a documented group all either stamped or attributed to Dubois:- these include one illustrated in G. Janneau, Les Petits Meubles, Paris, 1977, p. XXI, one from the Cartier collection (sold Sotheby's Monaco, 25 November 1979, lot 146), one sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 28 March 1987, lot 88 (with the same mounts flanking the central drawer), one sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 2 November 2000, lot 213 ($199,500) and one sold by the Trustees of the late Mrs. S. Metcalfe, Sotheby's London, 15 June 1990, lot 23 (with the same angle mounts). Another from this group, unstamped but very close in shape and with identical mounts to the angles and flanking the central drawer, from the Wrightsman Collection is illustrated F. J. B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Furniture, Vol II, New York, 1966, pp 298-299, no. 147.
The model is also close to the oeuvre of Bernard II van Risen Burgh (mâitre in 1730), as can be seen by comparison with examples in the Shaefer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one illustrated in H. Honour, Cabinet-Makers & Furniture Designers, London, 1969, p. 105, and another in J. Nicolay, L'Art et la Manière des Maître Ebénistes Français, Paris, 1956, p. 85, fig. E. For a further discussion of related desks by Dubois and B.V.R.B. see A. Boutemy, Meubles Français Anonymes du XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1973, pp. 45-56.
This bureau plat belongs to a documented group all either stamped or attributed to Dubois:- these include one illustrated in G. Janneau, Les Petits Meubles, Paris, 1977, p. XXI, one from the Cartier collection (sold Sotheby's Monaco, 25 November 1979, lot 146), one sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 28 March 1987, lot 88 (with the same mounts flanking the central drawer), one sold anonymously at Christie's New York, 2 November 2000, lot 213 ($199,500) and one sold by the Trustees of the late Mrs. S. Metcalfe, Sotheby's London, 15 June 1990, lot 23 (with the same angle mounts). Another from this group, unstamped but very close in shape and with identical mounts to the angles and flanking the central drawer, from the Wrightsman Collection is illustrated F. J. B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Furniture, Vol II, New York, 1966, pp 298-299, no. 147.
The model is also close to the oeuvre of Bernard II van Risen Burgh (mâitre in 1730), as can be seen by comparison with examples in the Shaefer Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one illustrated in H. Honour, Cabinet-Makers & Furniture Designers, London, 1969, p. 105, and another in J. Nicolay, L'Art et la Manière des Maître Ebénistes Français, Paris, 1956, p. 85, fig. E. For a further discussion of related desks by Dubois and B.V.R.B. see A. Boutemy, Meubles Français Anonymes du XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1973, pp. 45-56.