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A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED, BRASS-INLAID, JAPANESE LACQUER AND EBONY MEUBLES A HAUTEUR D`APPUI

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$ 300 000
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11.10.2023 18:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 53 | A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED, BRASS-INLAID, JAPANESE LACQUER AND EBONY MEUBLES A HAUTEUR D'APPUI
A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED, BRASS-INLAID, JAPANESE LACQUER AND EBONY MEUBLES A HAUTEUR D'APPUI

STAMPED MARTIN CARLIN, CIRCA 1765-70, FORMERLY ENCOIGNURES, ADAPTED PROBABLY IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY

Each with rouge griotte marble top above a guilloche border and frieze centering lion mask with acanthus-leaf mane on a foliate Vitruvian scroll, the cupboard door with foliate border surrounding a lacquer panel decorated with a pagoda on a coastal cliff amongst foliage and deer, flanked by ribbon-tied laurel trails, the angles headed by a satyr and a maenad wrapped in vine leaves above stop-fluted tapering pilasters, above a laurel-molded apron decorated with twin ribbon-tied oak branches, on gadrooned tapering feet terminating in foliate sabots, stamped twice 'M. CARLIN' and 'JME', with pen inscription 'R160' and 'R178' respectively, the marble tops replaced

40 ¼ in. (122.5 cm.) high, 36 ¼ in. (92 cm.) wide, 17 ¼ in. (44 cm.) deep





Provenance

Charles-Nicolas Duclos du Fresnoy (1733-1794), conseiller of King Louis XVI and notaire royal;

his sale, Paris, 19 August 1795, lot 175.

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), in the Salon Vert, hôtel Saint-Florentin, Paris.

Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949);

Confiscated from the above by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg following the Nazi occupation of France in May 1940 (ERR no. R 160 & R 176).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Neuschwanstein Castle, Germany.

Returned directly from the above to France on 17 November 1945 (marble top of R 176 returned on 19 October 1945) and restituted to the Rothschild family.

By descent to the present owners.



Literature

C. Frégnac and J. Wilhelm, Belles Demeures de Paris, 16e- 19e siècle, 1997, p. 75.



The Rothschild Archive, London, Inventaire après le décès de Monsieur le Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, A. Cottin Notaire, 16 October 1905 (hôtel Saint-Florentin, Salon Vert (‘Deux meubles entre deux Louis XVI-laque, montés bronzes dorés, têtes de lions bronze -40,000 francs’).
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