A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED POLYCHROME-DECORATED `BOULLE MARQUETRY` BUREAU MAZARIN

Los 23
02.07.2024 17:00UTC +00:00
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£ 327 600
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
VeranstaltungsortVereinigtes Königreich, London
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Los 23 | A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED POLYCHROME-DECORATED 'BOULLE MARQUETRY' BUREAU MAZARIN
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£ 100 000 – 150 000
A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED POLYCHROME-DECORATED 'BOULLE MARQUETRY' BUREAU MAZARIN
ATTRIBUTED TO BERNARD I VAN RISENBURGH ('BVRB' I), CIRCA 1700-10
Inlaid première-partie overall in brass, mother-of-pearl, stained horn and tortoiseshell with Bérain-esque motifs, the rectangular moulded top centred by Venus regarding herself in a mirror and surrounded by scrolling foliate motifs punctuated with birds, animals, masks and figures at leisure, playing musical instruments, drinking and smoking pipes, above a central frieze drawer over a fall-front cupboard door decorated with an obelisk, flanked by two banks of three drawers with a shaped apron and scroll angles, the sides conformingly decorated, on scroll legs joined by an X-shaped stretcher, on toupie feet
31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 48¼ (122.5 cm.) wide; 29½ in. (75 cm.) deep




Provenance

Lady Julia Annabelle Shuckburgh-Evelyn (1756-1797), Buxted Park, East Sussex;
bequeathed to her husband Sir George Augustus Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 6th Bt. (1751-1804);
thence by descent to his daughter Julia Evelyn Medley Shuckburgh-Evelyn, 3rd Countess of Liverpool (1790-1814), Buxted Park, East Sussex;
by descent to her daughter,
Lady Catherine Vernon-Harcourt (1811-1877), Buxted Park, East Sussex;
by inheritance to her husband Colonel Francis Vernon Harcourt at Buxted Park, East Sussex;
thence by descent to Henry Berkeley Portman, 3rd Viscount Portman of Bryanston (1860-1923);
thence by descent to his wife Emma Andalusia Frere Portman (1861-1929) and inventoried in 1925 as part of the ‘Vernon-Harcourt Heirlooms’ at Ladywell, Bournemouth;
thence by descent to Lady Moyra Dawson-Damer;
thence by descent to the present owner.
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