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ATTRIBUE A JOSEPH BAUMHAUER, DIT JOSEPH (d.1772)

Lot 30
14.06.2022 16:00UTC +01:00
Classic
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€ 2 322 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 770894
Lot 30 | ATTRIBUE A JOSEPH BAUMHAUER, DIT JOSEPH (d.1772)
Estimate value
€ 600 000 – 1 000 000
ATTRIBUE A JOSEPH BAUMHAUER, DIT JOSEPH (d 1772)

BUREAU PLAT DE LA FIN DE L'ÉPOQUE LOUIS XV, VERS 1765-1772

En placage d'ébène des Indes, ornementation de bronze ciselé et doré, le plateau rectangulaire gainé d'un velours de soie rouge cramoisi usé, la ceinture présentant une frise d'entrelacs mêlés à des culots feuillagés et appliquée sur les petits côtés d'un masque de Bacchus sur fond de tablier et sur les grands côtés d'une frise d'entrelacs de feuilles d'acanthe en ressaut, ouvrant par trois tiroirs et deux tirettes latérales, les pieds fuselés, cannelés, rudentés de tiges d'asperge, sommés d'un chapiteau ionique et terminés par des sabots à larges feuilles lancéolées

H.: 81,5 cm. ; L.: 189 cm. ; P.: 96 cm.



Joseph Baumhauer, dit Joseph, ébéniste privilégié du roi vers 1770







Provenance

Probablement acquis à Paris en 1803 par Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin et 11th Earl of Kincardine (1766-1841) ;

Puis par descendance Earl of Elgin et 11th Earl of Kincardine à Broomhall House, Fife, jusque dans les années 1970 ;

Galerie Alexander and Berendt Ltd, Londres.



Literature

Burlington House Fair, Royal Academy, 12-21 March 1982, p. 23.

A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p. 245.



Bibliographie comparative :

C. Rowell, W. Burchard, “Francois Benoit Martin-Eloi Lignereux and Lord Whitworth’ by Christopher Rowell and Wolf Burchard”, in Furniture History Society, Vol. 52, 2016, p. 207.

 



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ATTRIBUTED TO JOSEPH BAUMHAUER, ‘DIT’ JOSEPH (d.1772)
A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY BUREAU PLAT, CIRCA 1765-1772
With three frieze-drawers and two sliding writing surfaces
32 in. high ; 74 1⁄2 in. wide ; 37 3⁄4 in. deep
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