ID 1344966
Lot 52 | A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, BOIS SATINE AND MARQUETRY TABLE A ECRIRE
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 200 000
ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-PIERRE LATZ, CIRCA 1745-1750
The leather-lined top of serpentine outline with outset corners veneered with flowers, the border of the top with cartouches enclosing trailing flowers issuing from cornucopiae, above a walnut-lined drawer to each end, one fitted with silvered writing implements on cabriole legs headed by pierced chutes and with scroll sabots, the underside with a paper label inscribed 603 within a printed blue border (possibly a Rothschild label)
29.25 in. (74.295 cm.) high, 40 in. (101.6 cm.) wide, 23 in. (58.42 cm.) deep
Provenance
Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968).
Comtesse d'Aubigny, by whom sold, Christie's, London, 1 July 1976, lot 107.
Grog-Carven Collection, Paris.
Acquired from Aveline, Paris.
Literature
A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p. 159, fig. 133 (where attributed to Latz).
Connaissance des Arts, March 1980, p. 58, in an article on the Grog-Carven Collection.
| Artist: | Jean-Pierre Latz (1691 - 1754) |
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| Applied technique: | Marquetry, Ormolu |
| Medium: | Gold, Wood |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Category: | Tables |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables |
| Artist: | Jean-Pierre Latz (1691 - 1754) |
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| Applied technique: | Marquetry, Ormolu |
| Medium: | Gold, Wood |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Category: | Tables |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables |
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