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Lot Essay
Jacques Birckle, maître in 1764.
Birckle's production included numerous commodes and small tables decorated with detailed marquetry, with a recurrence of particular themes: vases of flowers, urns, draperies, ribbons, scenes à l' antique, landscapes and trophies, such as those on this commode. Several closely related commodes with trophy marquetry are known, including one sold anonymously, Chayette-Cheval, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 23 March 1995, lot 166; another sold anonymously, Christie's, Monaco, 12 December 1999, lot 991; a third example sold anonymously at Aguttes, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 December 2006, lot 216. A further closely related commode is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIeme Siècle, Paris, 1998, pp. 73, pl. E. and a virtually identical example is illustrated in J. Nicolay L'Art et la Manière des Maîtres Ebénistes Français au XVIIIe Siècle, Vol. I, Paris, 1976, p. 59, Fig. F.
Birckle's production included numerous commodes and small tables decorated with detailed marquetry, with a recurrence of particular themes: vases of flowers, urns, draperies, ribbons, scenes à l' antique, landscapes and trophies, such as those on this commode. Several closely related commodes with trophy marquetry are known, including one sold anonymously, Chayette-Cheval, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 23 March 1995, lot 166; another sold anonymously, Christie's, Monaco, 12 December 1999, lot 991; a third example sold anonymously at Aguttes, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 December 2006, lot 216. A further closely related commode is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIeme Siècle, Paris, 1998, pp. 73, pl. E. and a virtually identical example is illustrated in J. Nicolay L'Art et la Manière des Maîtres Ebénistes Français au XVIIIe Siècle, Vol. I, Paris, 1976, p. 59, Fig. F.