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BUREAU À CYLINDRE D`ÉPOQUE LOUIS XVI

Lot 23
20.11.2024 16:00UTC +01:00
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€ 100 800
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 1329907
Lot 23 | BUREAU À CYLINDRE D'ÉPOQUE LOUIS XVI
Estimate value
€ 80 000 – 120 000
BUREAU À CYLINDRE D'ÉPOQUE LOUIS XVI
ESTAMPILLE DE CLAUDE CHARLES SAUNIER, DERNIER QUART DU XVIIIe SIÈCLE
En placage de bois de rose, citronnier, ébène et amarante, tôle peinte polychrome à l'imitation de la laque et ornementation de bronze ciselé et doré, le dessus de marbre blanc veiné gris en partie ceint d'une galerie ajourée, la ceinture supérieure ouvrant par trois tiroirs, le cylindre centré d'un médaillon, à décor de chinois, de paysages sinisants et d'oiseaux éxotiques découvrant deux casiers, trois petits tiroirs et une tablette écritoire gainé de cuir rouge doré aux petit-fers, la ceinture inférieure ouvrant par trois tiroirs, sur des pieds fuselés simulant des cannelures, estampillé 'C.C. SAUNIER' sous la traverse droite
H. 111 cm. (43 ¾ in.) ; L. 84 cm. (33 in.) ; P. 52 cm. (20 ½ in.)
Claude-Charles Saunier, ébéniste reçu maître à Paris en 1752.




Provenance

Ancienne collection Paul Eudel (1837-1911) ; Sa vente, galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 11 mai 1898, lot 288 ;Ancienne collection de S.A.R. la Maharani de Baroda ;Vente Sotheby's à Londres, 24 novembre 1978, lot 184 ;Collection privée européenne.



Literature

A. Pradère, Les ébénistes français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Dijon, 2003, p. 369 (fig. 445).

Bibliographie comparative :
F. J. B. Watson, Le meuble Louis XVI, Paris, 1963, fig. 67, p 112.T. Wolvesperges, Le meuble français en laque au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 2000, pp. 234-237.Véronique Plotard-Cieslik « Tôle et laque, un mariage réussi », dans Anne Foray-Carlier et Monika Kopplin (dir.), Les secrets de la laque française, Le vernis Martin, [exposition, Paris, Arts décoratifs, 13 février - 8 juin 2014], Paris, 2014 pp. 267-291.



Further details

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED POLYCHROME TOLE, LEMONWOOD, EBONY AND TULIPWOOD DESK STAMPED BY CLAUD CHARLES SAUNIER, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
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