A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND JAPANESE LACQUER BUREAU PLAT
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ID 1345065
Lot 62 | A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND JAPANESE LACQUER BUREAU PLAT
Estimate value
600000USD $ 600 000 – 1 000 000
BY JOSEPH BAUMHAUER, KNOWN AS JOSEPH, ALMOST CERTAINLY COMMISSIONED BY SIMON-PHILIPPE POIRIER, CIRCA 1760, THE JAPANESE LACQUER PANELS 17TH CENTURY
The serpentine leather-lined top with outset corners above three frieze drawers and a leather-lined slide to each end, the frieze inset with Japanese lacquer panels depicting leafy plants in rocky landscapes, on cabriole legs headed with foliate chutes and inset with flaring ormolu panels terminating in scrolling sabots, stamped JOSEPH twice to one end of underside
28 ½ in. (72.5 cm.) high, 44 ½ in. (113 cm.) wide, 22 ½ in. (57.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
With Etienne Levy, Paris.
Pierre Jourdan-Barry (1926-2016).
Acquired from Galerie Kugel, Paris.
Literature
A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p. 245.
A. Boutémy, 'Joseph', Connaissance des Arts, no. 157, March 1965, pp. 83-89.
Exhibited
Paris, Sotheby's Galerie Charpentier, Trésors des collections privées: Les chefs-d'oeuvre du mobilier français, 7-15 March 1998.
Artist: | Joseph Baumhauer (1772) |
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Medium: | Acrylic glass, Japanese lacquerware, Wood, Plastic, Tulipwood |
Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables, Desks and bureaus |
Artist: | Joseph Baumhauer (1772) |
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Medium: | Acrylic glass, Japanese lacquerware, Wood, Plastic, Tulipwood |
Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables, Desks and bureaus |
Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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