BY ROGER VAN DER CRUSE, DIT LACROIX ('RVLC'), CIRCA 1785

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SYCAMORE BUREAU A CYLINDRE
BY ROGER VAN DER CRUSE, DIT LACROIX ('RVLC'), CIRCA 1785
The rectangular top with pierced three-quarter gallery surround above a central frieze drawer and a cylinder panel, enclosing a fitted interior with a sliding green velvet-lined writing-surface and three mahogany-lined drawers, above three frieze drawers, on turned tapering legs with brass caps, mounted overall with foliate and egg-and-dart mounts and handles, stamped twice 'R. LACROIX' and 'JME'
41¼ in. (105 cm.) high x 39 in. (98.5 cm.) wide x 21 in. (53.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Christie’s, London, 2 December 1971, lot 113.
With Partridge, London.

Literature

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
B. Franz, Die Französischen Möbel des 18. Jahrhunderts in Schloss Ludwigsburg, Schwetzingen, 1998, pp. 113-117, fig. 19.

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Lot Essay

Roger van der Cruse, dit Lacroix ('RVLC'), maître in 1755.

A closely related bureau-à-cylindre by Lacroix, similar in all respects to the present lot, although executed in mahogany rather than sycamore and devoid of a roundel to the central drawer, is in the so-called ‘Altes Corps de Logis’ at Schloss Ludwigsburg, the summer palace near Stuttgart of Duke Carl Eugèn von Württemberg (1728-1793) (ill. B. Franz, Die Französischen Möbel des 18. Jahrhunderts in Schloss Ludwigsburg, Schwetzingen, 1998, pp. 113-117, fig. 19).

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