ID 1177081
Lot 76 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE BLACK AND GILT LACQUER AND EBONIZED ENCOIGNURES
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
BY JACQUES DUBOIS, CIRCA 1745
Each with an arc-en-arbalete brêche d'alep marble top above a pair of cupboard doors decorated with a Chinoiserie landscape, enclosing two shelves, all on short scrolling sabots, formerly but not originally fitted with a shelved superstructure, the ormolu mounts extensively struck with the 'C' Couronne Poincon, one stamped 'I. DUBOIS' twice and 'JME' once, the other stamped 'I. DUBOIS' once
35 ½ in. (90.5 cm.) high, 30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) wide, 23 in. (58.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
A.R. Wasserman, sold Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 21-25 October 1947, lot 244.
Elizabeth Parke Firestone; Christie's, New York, 22-23 March 1991, lot 914.
Literature
Detroit Institute of Arts, French Taste in the 18th Century exhibition catalog, 1956, fig. 34.
Exhibited
Detroit Institute of Arts, 'French Taste in the 18th Century', 27 April - 3 June, 1956.
| Artist: | Jacques Dubois (1694 - 1763) |
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Gold, Japanese lacquerware, Plastic |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Cupboards |
| Artist: | Jacques Dubois (1694 - 1763) |
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Gold, Japanese lacquerware, Plastic |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XV |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Cupboards |
| Address of auction |
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