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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE

Lot 46
11.10.2023 18:00UTC -05:00
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Starting price
$ 250 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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ID 1027453
Lot 46 | A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE
Estimate value
$ 250 000 – 400 000
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE

ATTRIBUTED TO JEAN-PIERRE LATZ, MID-18TH CENTURY

The shaped and molded breche d'Alep marble top above two bombé-shaped drawers with three cross-banded panels inlaid sans traverse with foliate branches and mounted with an elaborate central foliate cartouche enriched with shell work and foliate handles, the sides conformingly decorated, on cabriole legs headed by scrolling rocaille mounts terminating in foliate sabots, stamped once 'OTHON', probably for Pierre Othon in his capacity as marchand, inscribed in chalk 'KKU 861' and in black pen 'K171', top drawer with label inscribed in pen '1126'

4.41/2 in. (88 cm.) high, 57 in. (145 cm.) wide, 28 in. (71 cm.) deep





Provenance

Baron Édouard de Rothschild (1868-1949), Paris.

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 171).

Selected for the 'Sonderauftrag Linz' (no. 1506) and transferred to the monastery of Kremsmünster (no. KKU 861)

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from the Altaussee salt mines, Austria, and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 27 June 1946 (MCCP no. 33906).

Returned to France on 21 January 1948 and restituted to the Rothschild family on 11 February 1948 (marble top returned separately to France from Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany, on 19 October 1945 and restituted on 7 January 1950).

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

'Château de fêtes du temps des crinolines : Ferrières’, Plaisir de France, December 1969, p. 68, no. 373.
Artist:Jean-Pierre Latz (1691 - 1754)
Applied technique:Ormolu
Medium:Kingwood, Gold, Wood, Tulipwood
Historical era:Period of Louis XV
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps, Dressers
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