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拍品專文
Roger Vandercruse (dit Lacroix), maître in 1755.
Roger Vandercruse (1727-1799), known as Lacroix or RVLC was one of the most celebrated ébénistes of the 18th Century, famed for the exceptional quality and variety of his productions. He is perhaps most known for the jewel-like quality of the small tables he produced, whose elaborate marquetry decoration continued in the tradition first established by Bernard II van Risenburgh (1696-1766), known as BVRB. The design of the present table, with flowing, elegant lines and distinctively inlaid cartouche top, is testament to the cross-pollination between the oeuvres of RVLC and his more senior colleague BVRB. A closely related table of identical form as the present lot in the Wrightsman Collection, stamped RVLC, is illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection Furniture, New York, 1966, vol. II, cat. 155, pp. 316-7 (later sold Sotheby's, New York, 5 May 1984, lot 198). A further closely related table attributed to Lacroix, with a lateral drawer, similarly banded cartouche top, and identical chutes mounts as the present example, sold Christie’s London, Wildenstein Collection, 14-15 December, 2005, lot 49.
Roger Vandercruse (1727-1799), known as Lacroix or RVLC was one of the most celebrated ébénistes of the 18th Century, famed for the exceptional quality and variety of his productions. He is perhaps most known for the jewel-like quality of the small tables he produced, whose elaborate marquetry decoration continued in the tradition first established by Bernard II van Risenburgh (1696-1766), known as BVRB. The design of the present table, with flowing, elegant lines and distinctively inlaid cartouche top, is testament to the cross-pollination between the oeuvres of RVLC and his more senior colleague BVRB. A closely related table of identical form as the present lot in the Wrightsman Collection, stamped RVLC, is illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection Furniture, New York, 1966, vol. II, cat. 155, pp. 316-7 (later sold Sotheby's, New York, 5 May 1984, lot 198). A further closely related table attributed to Lacroix, with a lateral drawer, similarly banded cartouche top, and identical chutes mounts as the present example, sold Christie’s London, Wildenstein Collection, 14-15 December, 2005, lot 49.