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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH BUREAU PLAT

Lot 35
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 300 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027458
Lot 35 | A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH BUREAU PLAT
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH BUREAU PLAT

BY BERNARD II VAN RISENBURGH, MID-18TH CENTURY

The leather top with cartouche-shaped rocaille clasps, three frieze drawers mounted with shell escutcheons and three opposing simulated drawers, the sides mounted with shell cartouches centered by foliate and berry pendants, on cabriole legs headed by richly cast foliate mounts centered by a shell, scrolling foliate sabots issuing floral sprays, stamped once BVRB, 'LG' inscribed on back right leg

29 ¾ in. (76 cm.) high, 67 ½ in. (172 cm.) wide, 33 in. (84 cm.) deep





Provenance

The Collection of the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

C. de Nicolay-Mazery, Visites privées, hôtels particuliers de Paris, Paris, 1999, p. 12.



COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, vol. II, New York, 1966, pp.295-297, no.146

J. Nicolay, L’Art et la Manière des Maîtres Ebénistes Français du XVIIIe Siècle, vol.I, Paris, 1976, p.85, fig.C

P. Verlet, Le Mobilier Royal Français, vol. IV, Paris, 1990, p.40-41

Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook, 1991, p.112

P. Verlet, Le Mobilier Royal Français, vol. II, Paris, 1992, pp.50-1, no.3, pl. III

P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1998 p.141
Applied technique:Ormolu
Medium:Gold, Wood, Tulipwood
Historical era:Period of Louis XV
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps, Desks and bureaus
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