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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK AND GILT JAPANESE LACQUER BUREAU DE DAME

Lot 260
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Lot 260 | A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK AND GILT JAPANESE LACQUER BUREAU DE DAME
Estimate value
$ 50 000 – 80 000
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK AND GILT JAPANESE LACQUER BUREAU DE DAME
BY JACQUES DUBOIS, CIRCA 1745
Shaped rectangular, the ormolu-framed fall-front and all sides inset with black lacquer decorated with gilt landscapes, opening to a fitted red-japanned interior with three drawers lined in nashiji lacquer over a leather-lined writing surface, on cabriole legs, stamped 'I DUBOIS JME' twice, the underside marked '29' in white chalk and with a paper label printed '122', another paper label faintly inscribed in ink ‘…4’
34 ½ in. (88 cm.) high, 20 ½ in. (52.5 cm.) wide, 14 in. (36 cm.) deep (when closed)




Provenance

Paul Dutasta, French Ambassador to Switzerland (1873-1925); Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3-4 June 1926, lot 157.
Acquired from Arnold Seligmann, Paris by Henry Walters (1848-1931) in 1926;
His wife, née Sarah 'Sadie' Wharton Green (1859-1943); Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 30 April-3 May 1941, lot 1413.
With A La Vieille Russie, New York.
Mrs. Gaby Salomon; Sotheby's, London, 17 July 1964, lot 113.
With A La Vieille Russie, New York.
Acquired by Annie Laurie Aitken (1900-1984) and Russell Barnett Aitken (1910-2002) from the above, 22 June 1967.



Literature

C. Packer, Paris Furniture by the Master Ebénistes, Newport, 1956, fig. 42.
F. Lewis Hinckley, A Directory of Antique French Furniture: 1735-1800, New York, 1967, p. 49.
Exhibition catalogue, Art Treasures Exhibition, London, New York, The National Antique and Art Dealers Association of America, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1967, no. 134.
G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, I, London, 1974, p. 282.



Exhibited

New York, The National Antique and Art Dealers Association of America, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Art Treasures Exhibition, 24 May - 7 June 1967, no. 134.
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