Formerly in the collection of prince and princesse Henry de la Tour d'Auvergne Lauraguais
A large late Louis XV gilt-bronze and brass mounted satinwood and amaranth veneered encoignure, circa 1770, attributed to Joseph Baumhauer (1747–1772)
Estimate
150,000 - 250,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
opening with a large door framed by a gilt-bronze border with geometric angles concealing a shelf, flanked by brass-fluted pilasters adorned with rosettes, the frieze decorated with a Greek key motif supporting a tripartite doucine with ribbon-tied laurel garlands, forming a serpentine-shaped top
Haut 107 cm, larg. 76 cm, prof. 56 cm ; Height 42 ¼ in, width 30 in, depth 22 in
Palais Galliera, Paris, Ader-Picard-Tajan, 2 March 1972, lot 96;
Sotheby’s, Monaco, 25 June 1983, lot 303;
The collection of Prince and Princess Henry de La Tour d’Auvergne Lauraguais;
Their sale, Sotheby's London, 3 May 2012, lot 50.
A. Pradère, Les ébénistes français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p. 244, fig. 249.
Related literature:
Jean-Dominique Augarde, « 1749, Joseph Baumhauer, ébéniste privilégié du roi », in L’Estampille, n° 204, June 1987, p. 14-45.
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