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

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

ATTRIBUTED TO ROGER VANDERCRUSE, CIRCA 1750

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND BOIS DE BOUT MARQUETRY TABLE A ECRIRE
ATTRIBUTED TO ROGER VANDERCRUSE, CIRCA 1750
The frieze drawer enclosing a green leather-lined writing surface and silver-plated sander, pen well and inkwell, stamped indistinctly …AT…[?]
28 ¾ in. (73 cm.) high, 29 in. (73.5 cm.) wide, 17 ½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Roger Vandercruse, known as Lacroix, maître in 1755.

This elegant table belongs to a group of similar examples by or attributed to RVLC, including one in the Wrightsman Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art (illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, New York, 1966, vol. II, cat. 155, and two further tables sold for the Wildenstein Collection, Christie's, London, 14 December 2005, lots 48 and 49. Each of these tables features the same distinctively shaped top and similar bois de bout marquetry foliate trails.

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