ID 1176945
Lot 172 | A PAIR OF REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH AND BOIS SATINE ENCOIGNURES
Estimate value
$ 30 000 – 50 000
ADAPTED CIRCA 1760 BY JACQUES DUBOIS OR HIS SON RENE DUBOIS FROM AN ARMOIRE A ENCOIGNURES BY CHARLES CRESSENT, CIRCA 1730
Each with molded later mottled peach marble top above a frieze mounted with guilloches enclosing a rosette and inlaid with intersecting brass lines above a rectangular cross-banded cupboard door mounted with an ormolu Bacchic mask, on plinth with gadrooned edge, stamped underneath marble, one (cabinet A) with Rothschild inventory marks 'KKU 842' (twice, in yellow chalk), 'AR 412' (twice, in black), 'INV1210' (at top, in black), 'I' (on the reverse, in black) '3' (on the reverse, in black), '4'' (in black), and '156' (on the reverse, in red), the other (cabinet B) with one with Rothschild inventory marks 'KKU 843' (twice, one at top and one on the reverse in yellow chalk), 'AR 412' (at top, twice), 'INV 1211' (at top, in black), and 'II' (on the reverse, in black), the underside of the marble of cabinet A inscribed 'I', and an illegible number, the underside of marble of cabinet B inscribed 'AR2196', 'AR', 'No.8411', '177-7584' (struck through), and '06' each stamped 'I. Dubois' and 'JME' in the capacity of a restorer
38 in. (96.5 cm.) high, 26 ¼ in. (67 cm.) wide, 20 in. (51 cm.) deep
Provenance
Baron Alphonse von Rothschild, Vienna.
Confiscated following the “Anschluss”, March 1938 (AR 412).
Selected for the 'Sonderauftrag Linz' (IV 1210, 1211), 30 May 1941, and transferred to the monastery of Kremsmünster (KKU 842, 843)
Restituted to Baroness Clarice Adelaide von Rothschild, 16 October 1947.
With Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York.
Anonymous sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 28 October 1967, lot 194.
With Dalva Brothers, New York.
The Property of a Gentleman; Christie's, New York, 6 June 1984, lot 138.
Literature
A. Pradère, Charles Cressent, Dijon, 2003, pp. 96 and 292, cat. 182-183.
| Artist: | Jacques Dubois (1694 - 1763) Charles Cressent (1685 - 1768) |
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
| Medium: | Amaranth, Gold, Wood |
| Art style: | Regency |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Cupboards |
| Artist: | Jacques Dubois (1694 - 1763) Charles Cressent (1685 - 1768) |
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
| Medium: | Amaranth, Gold, Wood |
| Art style: | Regency |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Cupboards |
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