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A GERMAN PEWTER AND BRASS-INLAID BOIS-SATINE, RED TORTOISESHELL BOULLE MARQUETRY AND WALNUT BUREAU

CIRCA 1720

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A GERMAN PEWTER AND BRASS-INLAID BOIS-SATINE, RED TORTOISESHELL BOULLE MARQUETRY AND WALNUT BUREAU
CIRCA 1720
Inlaid overall with strapwork and foliate scrolls, the angled superstructure with six drawers and a central cupboard door above a sloping fall-front inlaid with a central coat-of-arms enclosing an interior with a sunk well and three fitted drawers, above a panelled frieze and square tapering supports joined by stretchers, on foliate carved bun feet, the front two legs flanking the kneehole originally hinged gatelegs, now fixed and with consequential replacements of veneer in amaranth and addition of lopers, the feet and capitals re-gilt
47 in. (119 cm.) high; 36 in. (92 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis

拍品專文

As published designs and templates for marquetry decoration were drawn from engraved sources which were disseminated throughout Europe, such as those of Jean Bérain, it is often difficult to attribute furniture on the basis of its marquetry decoration alone. However, a bureau in the Residenzmuseum, Munich, supplied to Kurfürst Karl-Albrecht in 1729 by the cabinet-maker known only by his monogram CSB displays a somewhat similar inlay (illustrated in G. Hojer and H. Ottomeyer, Die Möbel der Residenz München, Munich, 1996, pp. 278-282 and pp. 286-289, fig. 81), however, the paired legs are a feature also found on French and Dutch furniture and even featured prominently on three writing-tables of 'six-pillar' form which were supplied to the London court of William and Mary in 1690 by the cabinet-maker Gerrit Jensen (d.1715). In fact, the shape of leg follows closely the fashionable styles of the time as advocated by the Hougenot architect to William III, Daniel Marot.