A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE LACQUER AND EBONY COMMODE

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12.12.2024 16:00UTC -05:00
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Los 73 | A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE LACQUER AND EBONY COMMODE
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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE LACQUER AND EBONY COMMODE
BY CLAUDE-CHARLES SAUNIER, CIRCA 1765, THE JAPANESE LACQUER 17TH CENTURY
With a shaped rectangular portor marble top above ten drawers from a 17th-century Japanese lacquer cabinet, their fronts decorated in relief with gilt birds and landscapes, the angles mounted with ormolu paterae and fruiting pendants, the sides decorated with overlapping pictorial lacquer rectangles, on square tapering legs, stamped on the top CC SAUNIER, inscribed on the top B 57 and Hal 1 and on the reverse HAL 53 in black ink
36 ½ in. (93 cm.) high, 43 in. (110 cm.) wide, 21 ½ in. (55 cm.) deep




Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to Louise-Jeanne de Durfort, duchesse de Mazarin (1735-1781) for her bedroom in the château de Chilly-Mazarin, and subsequently described in the catalogue drawn up after her death in 1781 under lot 385 as follows: 'une commode de laque noir, avec des oiseaux de relief en or, composée d'un grand tiroir et de neuf petits, avec entrée de serrure & ornements de cuivre doré, & à dessus de marbre d'Italie'.
Acquired at the sale of her collection held between August 1784 and March 1785 by Sieur Chevalier for 408 livres.
Reputedly subsequently acquired by Jean-Joseph de Laborde.
Alice Halphen, nee Koenigswarter (Mme. Fernand Halphen), Paris.
Confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg from the above and transferred to the Jeu de Paume via the German Embassy in Paris (ERR no. HAL 53), 9 July 1940.
Transferred to the Nazi depot at Neuschwanstein, then shipped to Lager Peter, Alt Aussee, Austria.
Repatriated to France, 19 October 1945 and restituted to Alice Halphen, 15 February 1946.
Georges Halphen, by descent from above.
Acquired from Galerie Kugel, Paris.
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