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A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY AND EBONIZED RÉGULATEUR DE PARQUET

Lot 28
01.02.2024 10:00UTC -04:00
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Starting price
$ 150 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUSA, New York
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Lot 28 | A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY AND EBONIZED RÉGULATEUR DE PARQUET
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TORTOISESHELL AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY AND EBONIZED RÉGULATEUR DE PARQUET

ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRÉ-CHARLES BOULLE, CIRCA 1715-1720

The dial centered by entwined dragons and inset with white enamel cartouches with blue Roman numerals, the shield-shaped case surmounted by an ormolu putto mid-flight above scrolling foliage centered by a shell flanked by further foliage; the baluster-shaped center section with hinged door, the flared lower section with pendant ormolu foliate sprays flanking the arched pendulum aperture centered by a female mask with laurel wreath, raised on a rectangular plinth base with hinged door surrounded by leaf-tip borders, with an associated early 18th century English movement, originally with additional section to the plinth

94 in. (238.8 cm.) high, 20 ¼ in. (51.4 cm.) wide, 10 ½ in. (26.7 cm.) deep





Provenance

Baron Louis de Rothschild (1882-1955); Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13-14 May 1955, lot 378.

Property of A Private American Collector; Sotheby’s, New York, 14 October 1988, lot 42.

Acquired at the above sale by Steinitz, Paris and New York, on behalf of Lewis Sanders, New York.

Fifth Avenue Grandeur: Important French Furniture from the Collection of Lewis and Ali Sanders; Christie's, New York, 29 October 2019, lot 1109.



Literature

Charles Packer, Paris Furniture by the Master Ebénistes, Newport, 1956, fig. 27A.

Jean-Dominique Augarde, Les Ouvriers du Temps, Geneva, 1996, p. 83.

Pierre Kjellberg, Encyclopédie de la pendule française de Moyen-Age au XXe siècle, Paris, 1997, p. 65.
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