A Louis XIV engraved brass and pewter inlaid tortoiseshell première partie Boulle marquetry and ebony bureau mazarin, circa 1685, attributed to Alexandre-Jean Oppenordt (1663−1715), restored by Jacques Dubois, circa 1750
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Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
with a rectangular top within an everted border with a gilt-bronze acanthus clasp at each corner above a frieze drawer and recessed kneehole above a concave flap opening to reveal a recess flanked by three drawers on later cabriole legs terminating in gilt-bronze block feet on brass castors, the rear inlaid in fruitwood and amaranth on an ebony ground, the whole decorated with scrolls, foliage, bellflowers, female masks and geometric motifs within strapwork reserves
Haut. 84 cm, larg. 121 cm, prof. 70 cm ; Height 33 in, width 47 2/3 in, depth 27 1/2 in
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Almost certainly acquired by either George, 2nd Earl of Warwick (1746-1816) also known as Earl Brooke of Warwick Castle or his son Henry Richard Greville, 3rd Earl of Warwick (1779-1853), for Warwick Castle, Warwickshire;
Thence by descent with the Earls of Warwick until sold by the Trustees of the Warwick Castle Settlement, Christie’s, London, 20th May 1968, lot 81, described as a `Bureau Mazarin Louis XIV… dans le goût d’A.-C. Boulle et estampillé I. Dubois… qui aurait probablement restauré cette pièce au cours du XVIIIᵉ siècle’;
Private collection;
Treasures, Sotheby’s London, 3 July 2013, lot 18
Related literature :
J. Nérée Ronfort, André-Charles Boulle 1642-1732, Un nouveau style pour l’Europe, Paris, 2009
P. Fuhring, Designs for and after Boulle Furniture, The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXXXIV, no. 1071, June 1992, pp. 350-362
A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, The Art of the ébéniste from Louis XIV to the Revolution, Tours, 1989, pp. 63-65
J. P. Samoyault, André-Charles Boulle et sa Famille, Paris, 1979, p. 122
P. Thornton, Seventeenth–Century Interior Decoration in England, France & Holland, London, 1978, fig. 31.
Louis XIV faste et Décors Mai-Octobre, 1960, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Palais du Louvre-Pavillon de Marsan, Pl. XXXIII, no. 78
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