ATTRIBUTED TO NICHOLAS SAGEOT, CIRCA 1725

Details

A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL AND EBONY BIBLIOTHEQUE
ATTRIBUTED TO NICHOLAS SAGEOT, CIRCA 1725
With red tortoiseshell-inlaid Boulle marquetry, the sides with engraved inlaid brass diamonds and strapwork, grilled doors and shelves, later mounts
101 ½ in. (258 cm.) high, 60 in. (152.5 cm.) wide, 17 ¼ in. (44 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired from Gerard Orts, Paris, April 2003.

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Sale room notice

This Lot is Withdrawn.

Lot Essay

Designed in the Louis XIV 'antique' manner developed by André-Charles Boulle and Jean Bérain, this bibliothèque is stylistically close to the oeuvre of the ébéniste Nicolas Sageot.
First recorded in Paris in 1698, Sageot achieved his maîtrise in 1706 and was based in the faubourg Saint-Antoine. He evidently rapidly expanded his business, as by 1711 he had 12,000 livres, almost all in stock-in-trade. The extensive nature of his business is revealed by the sale in 1720 to Lonard Prieur, 'Marchand Mercier Grossier Joaillier Priviligié suivant la Cour', of 16,000 livres of furniture, consisting of a wide range of armoires, bureaux and commodes and amongst which were several 'armoires à dôme' in brass-inlaid tortoiseshell, valued between 400 and 1000 livres.

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