拍品 326
326
An ormolu-mounted and brass-banded black-lacquered bureau-plat
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An ormolu-mounted and brass-banded black-lacquered bureau-plat

FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY SOUTH WEST GERMAN

細節
An ormolu-mounted and brass-banded black-lacquered bureau-plat
First half 18th Century, probably South West German
The rounded rectangular top with later black canvas writing surface, above a shaped frieze with three drawers to each side on cabriole legs headed by cassolettes and ending in foliate sabots, the drawers lined with gilt-embossed red floral paper, one sheet inscribed AUGSPURG BEY G.C. STOY, remounted, the metalwork incomplete, one foot broken and restored
78 cm. high x 135 cm. wide x 74 cm. deep
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拍場告示
Please note that the signature illustrated on page 132 is on the paper lining to the interior of lot 326.

拍品專文

The gilt-embossed paper lining the drawers of this bureau plat are by Georg Christoph Stoy (1670 - 1750), one of the most important manufacturors of this type of paper. On the 7th of January 1709 he received the Emperor's privilege. The manufacture of gilt embossed paper is known since the 15th Century, and was produced untill the 18th Century, when it enjoyed its greatest popularity. It was mainly used to line book bindings, but also to line the interior of furniture, and even as wall-paper where it formed a cheaper alternative to gilt embossed leather. There are several stamped examples of Stoy's work in the Olga Hirsch collection of Decorated papers in the British Library and in the Bavarian state library in Munich.

Cf. A. Haemmerle, Buntpapier, Herkommen - Geschichte - Techniken - Beziehungen zur Kunst, Munich, 1977.
J.F. Heybrok, Sierpapier, The Hague, 1994.