Sale 2645
New York
|
21 June 2012
Price realised
USD 12,500
Estimate
A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODE BY JEAN HOLTHAUSEN, CIRCA 1770 The breakfront white-veined grey marble top with canted angles above two drawers inlaid sans tranverse on cabriole legs with lions' paws feet, stamped to the upper left corner twice J. HOLTHAUSEN and other indistinct stamps, the angle mounts 18th century and possibly associated 33¼ in. (84.5 cm) high; 39 in. (99 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 8 May 2009, lot 82.
Contact Client Service
info@christies.com
New York +1 212 636 2000
London +44 (0)20 7839 9060
infoasia@christies.com
Asia +852 2760 1766
Jean Holthausen, maître in 1764.
Old Masters specialist Jonquil O’Reilly explains how one dressed to impress in the 1500s, with the aid of portraits by Cranach and Mor offered in New York on 19 April
Christie’s to auction an important and long-lost portrait work by Lucas Cranach the Elder, recently returned to the heirs of Fritz Gutmann
From record-breakers to national treasures, a selection of landscape-changing works offered in Christie’s salerooms across the past 251 years
Four contemporary silversmiths — hailing from China, Belgium, Britain and Japan — who have harnessed ancient techniques to their own distinctive styles
Jonathan Rendell, Christie’s ’story teller’ for The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, looks at a painting that gives him ‘goose-bumps’
Discover CoBrA, Basquiat, Polke and more at De Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam