A LOUIS XV LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, SYCAMORE AND MARQUETRY TABLE EN CHIFFONIERE

CIRCA 1765

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A LOUIS XV LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, SYCAMORE AND MARQUETRY TABLE EN CHIFFONIERE
Circa 1765
Inlaid overall with landscape scenes or floral marquetry, the pierced galleried waved top above three long drawers decorated sans traverse, the top drawer fitted, on cabriole legs terimanting in later foliate sabots, previously with undertier, the top drawer with paper label inscribed '10969', restorations to the underside of the top, restorations to the veneer
29¼in. (74cm.) high, 16½in. (42cm.) wide, 12in. (31cm.) deep

Provenance

Alisa Mellon Bruce, Pittsburgh, bequeathed to the
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.

Lot Essay

The marquetry of this table en chiffonière may well have been executed by a specialist marqueteur. Several small tables of differing designs, including that of a table en chiffonière that includes a similar landscape to the front with ducks on a pond from The Collection of Baroness Margit Sigray Bessenyey which was sold in these Rooms, 9 May 1985, lot 85, have closely related marquetry. Pierre Kjellberg in his Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, pp. 792 - 793, suggests that ébénistes may have purchased marquetry panels either from colleaugues that were particularly apt at manufacturing marquetry panels or from as yet unidentified marqueteurs.

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