MID-18TH CENTURY, MOUNTS ORIGINAL AND REGILT, PROBABLY REDECORATED, LATER BACKS

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK AND GOLD LACQUER ENCOIGNURES
MID-18TH CENTURY, MOUNTS ORIGINAL AND REGILT, PROBABLY REDECORATED, LATER BACKS
Each with a later bowfronted triangular Breche d'Alep marble top above a conforming door decorated with birds on flowering branches, enclosed by scrolling foliate encadrements ending in a satyr's mask, the waved angles mounted with scrolling foliate chutes continuing to scrolling foliate sabots, each with printed customs stamp, two escutcheons, one descending chute and two leaf-tip mounts replaced
37¾ in. (97 cm.) high, 33 in. (87 cm.) wide, 26¼ in. (68.5 cm.) deep (2)

來源

J. Rosenbaum, Amsterdam, 1939.
Catalina von Pannwitz, Castle Hartekamp, Holland.
With Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, 1979.
Anonymous sale; Christie's New York, 16-18 November 1999, lot 598.

拍品專文

With its central Bacchic mask and exaggerated bombé form, these encoignures share much in common with that attributed to Jacques Dubois (maître in 1742) in the Wallace collection (F99- P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, pp. 311-313. It is interesting to note that the foliate-wrapped chutes are characteristic of Dubois and can be seen, for instance, on the bois de bout marquetry bureau sold from the Alexander Collection, Christie's New York, 30 April 1999, lot 140.

A pair of encoignures of similar outline and with comparable angle mounts stamped by the marchand-ébéniste Adrian Faizelot Delorme is illustrated in J. Nicolay, L'Art et la Manière des Maîtres Ebénistes Français Paris, 1956, p. 141, fig. C. Another similar pair by Delorme was sold from the Lopez Tarragoya collection, Palais Galliéra, Paris, 15 June 1971, lot 103 and a commode in the Festetics Collection at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Budapest also has the same chutes.