A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED, MOTHER OF PEARL, AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, AND MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED, MOTHER OF PEARL, AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, AND MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT

BY ANDRÉ-LOUIS GILBERT AND LEONARD BOUDIN, CIRCA 1775

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED, MOTHER OF PEARL, AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, AND MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
BY ANDRÉ-LOUIS GILBERT AND LEONARD BOUDIN, CIRCA 1775
The eared rectangular brèche d'Alep marble above a long frieze drawer and a fall-front centered by a Palladian arch within a flower-filled trellis field, the reverse with a gilt-tooled pale green leather writing surface enclosing shelves and drawers, above two similarly decorated cupboard doors, the sides also with conforming scenes, on bracket feet, three times stamped 'BOUDIN', twice 'A.L. GILBERT' and three times 'JME', with painted inventory 'DRD46', partially remounted
54 in. (137 cm.) high; 36½ in. (92.5 cm.) wide; 14¼ in. (36 cm.) deep
來源
Madame C. Quéniaux, Paris, 11 June 1908, lot 132.
Anonymous sale, Paris, 6 December 1966, lot 67.
出版
Comte F. de Salverte, Les Ébénistes du XVIIIè Siècle, Paris, 1953, Pl. XXVIII (illustrated).

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André Louis Gilbert, maître in 1774.
Léonard Boudin, maître in 1761.

This secrétaire à motifs d'architecture forms part of a group of furniture decorated with pictorial marquetry panels depicting classical capriccio and views of Rome in the manner of Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720 - 1778) and Hubert Robert (1733-1808). It shows the unrivalled talent of Gilbert as a specialised marqueteur, who sold his virtuose marquetry panels to his fellow confreres and marchand-merciers, in this case to Boudin. The marquetry is often closely related in design and execution, using panels of stained wood, often green, and some ivory or mother-of-pearl inlay (G. de Bellaigue, 'Engravings and the French Eighteenth Century Marqueteur', Burlington Magazine, May 1965, pp. 240 - 250 and July 1965, pp. 356 - 363, and 'Ruins in Marquetry', Apollo, January, 1968, pp.12-16).