ID 819778
Lot 28 | A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY MEUBLE D'APPUI
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
BY JOSEPH BAUMHAUER, THE MOUNTS BY PHILIPPE CAFFIERI, THE DESIGN BY LOUIS-JOSEPH DE LORRAIN, CIRCA 1758-1764, SUBSEQUENTLY RESTORED BY JEAN-FRANCOIS LELEU
The rectangular top of breakfront outline fitted with inset mottled marble flanked by ebony panels, surrounded by an ormolu border above a paneled frieze drawer fitted with a leaf-cast ormolu mount above a frieze fitted with ormolu Vitruvian scrolls and four glazed cupboard doors flanked and separated by ormolu-inset fluted pilasters surmounted by rosettes, above a shaped apron and block feet, stamped (once) 'JOSEPH,' and (twice) 'J.F. LELEU,' and (once) 'JME'; the back with printed label 'Chenue-Emballeur/Seligmann 5 Rue de la Terrasse, Paris,' with circular white sticker under marble with pencil '4068', with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label
37 in. (94 cm.) high, 63 1/2 in. (161.5 cm.) wide, 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Supplied as part of a larger ensemble to Ange-Laurent Lalive de Jully, probably circa 1762-4 for the cabinet flamand of his hôtel in the rue de Ménars where it is recorded in 1764.
Offered in the sale of his collection, 5 March 1770, lot 288 (withdrawn).
Acquired with the hôtel in the rue de Ménars by the Maréchal de Choiseul-Stainville and probably reconstructed circa 1785 for his new hôtel in the rue d'Artois, where it remained until the sale of 23 November 1789, lot 78, as one of four 'bas d'armoires'.
With Seligmann, Paris.
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, London, recorded in the library in the pre-1927 inventory and in 1939.
Thence by descent to his sister Sybil , Marchioness of Cholmondeley.
Thence by descent to the Marquess of Cholmondeley, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, sold Works of Art from Houghton Hall; Christie's, London, 8 December 1994, lot 80.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.
Literature
A.-L. Lalive de Jully, Catalogue Historique du Cabinet de peinture et sculpture françoise, de M. de Lalive, Introducteur des Ambassadeurs, honoraire de l'Academie Royale de Peinture, Paris, 1764.
H. Roberts, 'A Postscript to Lalive de Jully's Furniture a la grecque', The Burlington Magazine, May 1989, pp. 350- 353, figs. 42-43.
Exhibited
London, 25 Park Lane, W.1., Three French Reigns, 21 February-5 April 1933, no. 541 (Catalogue, p. 75, fig. 65, and shown in the photograph of the Large Drawing Room during the exhibition).
San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Portrait of an English Country House: Houghton Hall, 18 October 2014-18 January 2015.
Special notice
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Artist: | Jean-François Leleu (1729 - 1807) Joseph Baumhauer (1772) |
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Applied technique: | Ormolu |
Medium: | Ebonywood, Gold, Wood |
Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Cupboards |
Artist: | Jean-François Leleu (1729 - 1807) Joseph Baumhauer (1772) |
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Applied technique: | Ormolu |
Medium: | Ebonywood, Gold, Wood |
Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Cupboards |
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