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Lot Essay
Jacques van Oostenrik, dit Dautriche, maître in 1765.
Born in the Low Countries, Jacques van Oostenrijk settled in Paris sometime before 1743, at which time he gallicised his name to Dautriche. Until he became maître, he worked as an independent journeyman, specialising in marquetry. Dautriche was for a long time established in the rue Traversière, moving towards the end of his life to the rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Among his clients was the Comte d'Artois. When he died in 1778, his workshop was taken over by his widow Elizabeth Hannot and his son Thomas-Jacques Dautriche, who was later to take part in the storming of the Bastille.
This combined writing-table and bookcase of small proportions is an unusual form of furniture. It is particularly elegant in the way that the marquetry flowing upwards on the angles follows their sinuous form, the cartouches to the sides frame their very slight bombé shape and in the choice of end-cut kingwood 'bois-de-bout' marquetry for the top, within a cartouche frame, very much in the manner of another celebrated émigré ébéniste - Bernard II van Risenburgh (B.V.R.B.).
Born in the Low Countries, Jacques van Oostenrijk settled in Paris sometime before 1743, at which time he gallicised his name to Dautriche. Until he became maître, he worked as an independent journeyman, specialising in marquetry. Dautriche was for a long time established in the rue Traversière, moving towards the end of his life to the rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Among his clients was the Comte d'Artois. When he died in 1778, his workshop was taken over by his widow Elizabeth Hannot and his son Thomas-Jacques Dautriche, who was later to take part in the storming of the Bastille.
This combined writing-table and bookcase of small proportions is an unusual form of furniture. It is particularly elegant in the way that the marquetry flowing upwards on the angles follows their sinuous form, the cartouches to the sides frame their very slight bombé shape and in the choice of end-cut kingwood 'bois-de-bout' marquetry for the top, within a cartouche frame, very much in the manner of another celebrated émigré ébéniste - Bernard II van Risenburgh (B.V.R.B.).