ID 1027733
Lot 347 | A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, SYCAMORE AND HOLLY GUERIDON
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
BY MARTIN CARLIN, CIRCA 1775, PROBABLY SUPPLIED BY DOMINIQUE DAGUERRE, THE PORCELAIN 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF SEVRES
The circular top with pierced gallery and drapery border and inset with a porcelain plaque in the manner of Sèvres painted with a bouquet of flowers, the frieze inset with marquetry panels inlaid with a ribbon motif between bell husks within stiff-leaf borders, the squared supports headed by paterae and hung with ribbon-tied trails of fruit and foliage, joined by a circular undertier inlaid with scrolling foliate arabesques and centered swirling rosette, cabriole legs headed by applied rosettes and foliate collars and terminating in paw sabots on wooden casters, stamped 'M. CARLIN' and 'JME', with traces of three labels on underside, one inscribed 'I LA 2030'
29 in. (74 cm.) high, 18 in. (46 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
C. Fregnac and J. Wilhelm, Belles Demeures de Paris, 16e - 19e siècle, 1997, p. 74.
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Robert R. Wark, French Decorative Art in the Huntington Collection, San Marino, California, 1962, no's, 64, 65, 66.
F.J.B.Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Volume I, New York, 1966, pp. 282-283 and 284.
A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Revolution, Paris, 1989, p.359, figs 427 and 429.
D. Alcouffe, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Volume I, Dijon, 1993, pp. 228-229.
| Applied technique: | Ormolu, Pottery |
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| Medium: | Mahogany, Ceramic, Gold, Porcelain, Wood |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables |
| Applied technique: | Ormolu, Pottery |
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| Medium: | Mahogany, Ceramic, Gold, Porcelain, Wood |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables |
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