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拍品专文
The 'C' couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749.
Joseph Baumhauer, ébéniste privilégié du Roi circa 1749.
These spectacular encoignures rank among the richest pieces of furniture produced by Joseph, and rival his celebrated series of commodes with bois de bout marquetry from the 1750s, including the commode in the Toledo Museum of Art, possibly that supplied to the Comte Cobenzl in 1756, and the pair in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, formerly in the collection of the Dukes of Leeds.
These elegant encoignures are a superb example of Joseph's flair for the rococo of the 1740s and 1750s. The use of flowers cut in end-grain wood - bois de boût - against a ground of long-grain quarter-veneers, giving a contrast of texture and colour was a leitmotif of his work at this time. Joseph chose the most luxurious materials to convey richness and sumptuousness; both the mounts and the marquetry are partly realistic and partly abstract; and the overall design flows in a perfect rhythm. Another very closely related pair with slightly more mounts, sold from the collection of the late Edmund de Rothschild from Exbury House, Hampshire, at Sotheby's, London, 8 December 2009, lot 10, (£121,250). Towards the 1760s Joseph's forms became more restrained, mounted in a simpler fashion often with a foliate border to follow the contours and with small corner mounts. Around 1765, he adopted the neo-classical style, with straighter outlines and bronze mounts (see the commode supplied to the marquis de Marigny in 1766), and the floral marquetry of the rococo replaced by plain veneers of bois satiné, mahogany and amaranth.
Joseph is still an ébéniste little documented, although it is evident today that commodes, encoignures and bureaux plats constitute almost the entirety of his oeuvre. Other important recorded pieces by Joseph are the celebrated bureau à pupitre sold by Lazare Duvaux circa 1758, to the Comte de Cobenzl (1712-1770; sold from the collection of Hubert de Givenchy, Christie's Monaco, 4 December 1993, lot 84), and a Japanese lacquer commode (c.1750) with Darnault's label, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. After his death in 1777, his son Gaspard Baumhauer took over the workshop and his warrant of ébéniste privilegié du Roi, however due to illness and financial problems, Gaspard Baumhauer was forced to suspend his activities circa 1777-78.
Joseph Baumhauer, ébéniste privilégié du Roi circa 1749.
These spectacular encoignures rank among the richest pieces of furniture produced by Joseph, and rival his celebrated series of commodes with bois de bout marquetry from the 1750s, including the commode in the Toledo Museum of Art, possibly that supplied to the Comte Cobenzl in 1756, and the pair in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, formerly in the collection of the Dukes of Leeds.
These elegant encoignures are a superb example of Joseph's flair for the rococo of the 1740s and 1750s. The use of flowers cut in end-grain wood - bois de boût - against a ground of long-grain quarter-veneers, giving a contrast of texture and colour was a leitmotif of his work at this time. Joseph chose the most luxurious materials to convey richness and sumptuousness; both the mounts and the marquetry are partly realistic and partly abstract; and the overall design flows in a perfect rhythm. Another very closely related pair with slightly more mounts, sold from the collection of the late Edmund de Rothschild from Exbury House, Hampshire, at Sotheby's, London, 8 December 2009, lot 10, (£121,250). Towards the 1760s Joseph's forms became more restrained, mounted in a simpler fashion often with a foliate border to follow the contours and with small corner mounts. Around 1765, he adopted the neo-classical style, with straighter outlines and bronze mounts (see the commode supplied to the marquis de Marigny in 1766), and the floral marquetry of the rococo replaced by plain veneers of bois satiné, mahogany and amaranth.
Joseph is still an ébéniste little documented, although it is evident today that commodes, encoignures and bureaux plats constitute almost the entirety of his oeuvre. Other important recorded pieces by Joseph are the celebrated bureau à pupitre sold by Lazare Duvaux circa 1758, to the Comte de Cobenzl (1712-1770; sold from the collection of Hubert de Givenchy, Christie's Monaco, 4 December 1993, lot 84), and a Japanese lacquer commode (c.1750) with Darnault's label, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum. After his death in 1777, his son Gaspard Baumhauer took over the workshop and his warrant of ébéniste privilegié du Roi, however due to illness and financial problems, Gaspard Baumhauer was forced to suspend his activities circa 1777-78.