A late Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted tulipwood, amaranth, sycamore marquetry and holly bureau plat, circa 1770, stamped by Jean-Baptiste Vassou
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Estimate
15,000 - 25,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
opening with three drawers, with geometric decoration embellished with roundels, on square-section sheath legs fitted with fluted hoof feet, the top covered with a later gilt-tooled green leather surface, bearing several labels, one inscribed with the numbers ‘10-6-22’, stamped J.B. VASSOU and JME four times; (regilt)
Haut. 74 cm, larg. 130 cm, prof. 69 cm; Height 29 ½ in, width 51 ¼ in, depth 27 ¼ in
Christie’s New York, 21 October 2005, lot 384 (sold 54 000$).
Jean-Baptiste Vassou, cabinetmaker, received master in 1767.
Jean-Baptiste Vassou worked under the name “La Tête Noire” on Rue Saint-Nicolas before setting up shop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in 1799. His clients were often marchands-merciers who commissioned him to create classic furniture in the late Louis XV, Transition, and—above all—Louis XVI styles. The majority of his Louis XVI production consisted of secrétaires à abattant, secrétaires, and bureaux à cylindre, among other pieces.
A very similar bureau, formerly part of the collection of Hélie de Talleyrand, Duke of Talleyrand, was offered by Christie’s, Paris, 26 November 2005, lot 233.
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