CIRCA 1750, ATTRIBUTED TO JACQUES DUBOIS, THE JAPANESE LACQUER 17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE LACQUER AND VERNIS MARTIN BUREAU EN PENTE
CIRCA 1750, ATTRIBUTED TO JACQUES DUBOIS, THE JAPANESE LACQUER 17TH/18TH CENTURY
The Japanese lacquer panels decorated overall with landscapes and with an exotic bird to the reverse, the fall-front enclosing a red lacquer interior with five drawers, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus-cast angle mounts terminating in scrolling sabots, the underside indistinctly inscribed in white chalk Weiller(?)
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high, 33½ in. (85 cm.) wide, 17¾ in. (45 cm.) deep

Provenance

(Possibly) René Weiller.
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney and Jenny Brown-Sulzer, Switzerland.
Thence by descent to their last son Dr. John A. Brown.
German Private Collection; Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1995, lot 137. The Collection of Josette Day Solvay; Etude Tajan, Paris, 17 December 2002, lot J.

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Lot Essay

A number of bureaux of similar form by Jacques Dubois are recorded, often employing sumptuous panels of Japanese lacquer as on this example, notably one from the château de Breteuil, sold Sotheby's, Monaco, 14 June 1982, lot 480; one stamped with the crowned 'C', illustrated in A. Pradère, les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p. 170; and one formerly in the collection of Djahanguir Riahi, sold Christie's, New York, 2 November 2000, lot 51 ($210,000 exc. premium).

Sidney and Jenny Brown-Sulzer assembled one of the most important collection of French Impressionists before the First World War, to which they added a fine collection of French furniture and Chinese porcelain in the 1920's. The inscription 'Weiller' to the underside of this bureau probably refers to René Weiller, the celebrated Parisian dealer.

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