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Lot Essay
Jacques Philippe Carel, maître in 1723.
These encoignures are en suite with a commode also stamped by Carel in the musée du Louvre (illustrated in D. Alcouffe et al., Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Dijon, 1993, no.49, pp.162-3). This suite had descended with the ducs de Talleyrand during the 19th century and almost certainly formed part of the refurbishments introduced by the duc de Talleyrand at the château de Valençay shortly after its acquisition in 1803. The suite may well have been placed in the salon de laques et meubles dans le goût chinois on the first floor of the South Tower.
The Louvre commode was resold in Paris at Galerie Georges Petit, 6 December 1920, lot 318 and was bequeathed to the Louvre by Alphonse Kann.
These encoignures are en suite with a commode also stamped by Carel in the musée du Louvre (illustrated in D. Alcouffe et al., Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Dijon, 1993, no.49, pp.162-3). This suite had descended with the ducs de Talleyrand during the 19th century and almost certainly formed part of the refurbishments introduced by the duc de Talleyrand at the château de Valençay shortly after its acquisition in 1803. The suite may well have been placed in the salon de laques et meubles dans le goût chinois on the first floor of the South Tower.
The Louvre commode was resold in Paris at Galerie Georges Petit, 6 December 1920, lot 318 and was bequeathed to the Louvre by Alphonse Kann.