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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, BOIS SATINE, TULIPWOOD AND GREEN-STAINED SYCAMORE BUREAU A CYLINDRE

Lot 10
23.05.2024 10:30UTC +00:00
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Starting price
£ 80 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1225400
Lot 10 | A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, BOIS SATINE, TULIPWOOD AND GREEN-STAINED SYCAMORE BUREAU A CYLINDRE
Estimate value
£ 80 000 – 120 000
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, BOIS SATINE, TULIPWOOD AND GREEN-STAINED SYCAMORE BUREAU A CYLINDRE
BY ROGER VAN DER CRUSE (RVLC), 'DIT' LACROIX, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Decorated overall and in the round with geometric lozenge parquetry, the rectangular top inlaid with Greek key corners, the pierced three-quarter gallery above a feather banded tambour roll top, opening to reveal a fitted interior with four compartments and six drawers and a gilt-tooled green leather writing-surface, flanked by scrolling foliate border mounts, the reverse angles with foliate and entrelac cast mounts, the back centred by a Dionysian scene, the lower section with four frieze drawers and three opposing simulated drawers beneath a gilt-tooled leather writing-slide to the back, on cabriole legs headed by scrolling foliate mounts terminating in foliate sabots, stamped once 'RVLC', 'JME' and 'J.LAYTON'

44 in. (112 cm.) high; 68 in. (173 cm.) wide; 35 ½ in. (90 cm.) deep




Provenance

Nellie Lisa Baillie (née Bass), 2nd Baroness Burton (1873-1962), Chesterfield House, London; sold Christie's, London (Spencer House), 22-24 November 1950, lot 280.
Purchased at the above sale by Camerons in partnership with the father of the current owner, and by descent.



Literature

C. Roinet, Roger Vandercruse dit La Croix, 2000, Paris, pp. 13 & 36.



Exhibited

Paris, Biennale des Antiquaires, 1992
Applied technique:Ormolu
Medium:Parquetry
Auction house category:Desks and bureaus
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