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Lot Essay
Ferdinand Bury, maître in 1774.
The distinctive ormolu-bound central circular medallion features on a group of cylinder-bureaux executed by Bury, and possibly retailed by Jean-Baptiste Tuart, which includes a bureau from the collection of Prince Anatole Demidoff and subsequently from the collection of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, which was sold by Baron Guy de Rothschild, Château de Ferrières, Sotheby's, Monaco, 3 November 1994, lot 80 and a further example which was sold from the Espirito Santo collection, in these Rooms, 12 December 1996, lot 99. Bury also used this motif on a parquetry commode and a jardinière, which are illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier François du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 126-127. Another related commode by Bury, but with parquetry panels, was sold from the collection of Giuseppe Rossi, Sotheby's London, 12 March 1999, lot 274 (£177,500).
Bury collaborated with Tuart on numerous occasions, but also with Jean-Henri Riesener, for instance on a parquetry commode, stamped by Bury and Riesener, and also bearing the marque au feu of the Château de Versailles, which is now in the Louvre, Bequest of Comte Isaac de Camondo, 1911 (D. Alcouffe, Le Mobilier du Musée du Louvre, Dijon, 1993, vol. I, p. 269).
The distinctive ormolu-bound central circular medallion features on a group of cylinder-bureaux executed by Bury, and possibly retailed by Jean-Baptiste Tuart, which includes a bureau from the collection of Prince Anatole Demidoff and subsequently from the collection of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, which was sold by Baron Guy de Rothschild, Château de Ferrières, Sotheby's, Monaco, 3 November 1994, lot 80 and a further example which was sold from the Espirito Santo collection, in these Rooms, 12 December 1996, lot 99. Bury also used this motif on a parquetry commode and a jardinière, which are illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier François du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 126-127. Another related commode by Bury, but with parquetry panels, was sold from the collection of Giuseppe Rossi, Sotheby's London, 12 March 1999, lot 274 (£177,500).
Bury collaborated with Tuart on numerous occasions, but also with Jean-Henri Riesener, for instance on a parquetry commode, stamped by Bury and Riesener, and also bearing the marque au feu of the Château de Versailles, which is now in the Louvre, Bequest of Comte Isaac de Camondo, 1911 (D. Alcouffe, Le Mobilier du Musée du Louvre, Dijon, 1993, vol. I, p. 269).