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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, SYCAMORE AND HOLLY GUERIDON

Lot 347
13.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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$ 327 600
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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Lot 347 | A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, SYCAMORE AND HOLLY GUERIDON
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, SYCAMORE AND HOLLY GUERIDON

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
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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