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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND BOIS-DE-BOUT MARQUETRY CARTONNIER

IN THE MANNER OF BERNARD II VAN RISENBURGH, CIRCA 1745

Details

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND BOIS-DE-BOUT MARQUETRY CARTONNIER
IN THE MANNER OF BERNARD II VAN RISENBURGH, CIRCA 1745
Each side with a serpentine door, top section inscribed in red paint 'CC-32', the stand inscribed in black paint '5', with two printed labels Museum für Kunsthandwerk/Frankfurt am Main/GR 1270, formerly bearing a paper label inscribed M185009/3 FRN, and another inscribed 233033, the mounts regilt
53 ¾ in. (136.5 cm.) high, 36 ½ in. (92.5 cm.) wide, 15 in. (38 cm.) deep

Provenance

The Collection of Baron Eric von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt.
Seized and placed in the Museum für Künsthandwerk, Frankfurt.
Restituted to Baron Eric von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt, after World War II, and subsequently sold.
René Fribourg; Sotheby's London, 28 June 1963, lot 215.
Henry Ford II; Sotheby's New York, 25 February 1978, lot 93.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's New York, 22 May 1997, lot 214.
Anonymous sale; Christie's New York, 2 November 2000, lot 152.
Anonymous sale; Christie's New York, 9 June 2009, lot 219.

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Lot Essay

A similar Japanese lacquer cartonnier stamped B.V.R.B. and raised on a stand is in the J. Paul Getty Museum (illustrated in A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p. 196, pl. 188). Another cartonnier with floral marquetry to the sides on a simpler concave-fronted stand, attributed to B.V.R.B. by Francis Watson in the 1956 Wallace Collection catalogue and then to Latz by Henry Hawley in 1970 (H. Hawley, Jean-Pierre Latz, Cabinetmaker, The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, September/October 1970, pp. 203-59) was found to be stamped LATZ in a 1972 restoration (P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection Catalogue, London, 1996, Vol. II, no. 189 (F82), pp. 915-19). A third example, incorporating a clock is illustrated in Janneau & P. Devinoy, Le Meuble Léger en France, Paris, 1952, pl. 50. Another related example was sold from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld, Christie's Monaco, 29 April 2000, lot 330. The Lagerfeld cartonnier, formerly owned by the Rothschilds at the Château de Ferrières, was stamped by Denis Genty (maître in 1754).

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