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BUREAU PLAT DE LA FIN DE L’EPOQUE LOUIS XVI

Lot 38
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Lot 38 | BUREAU PLAT DE LA FIN DE L’EPOQUE LOUIS XVI
Estimate value
€ 300 000 – 500 000
BUREAU PLAT DE LA FIN DE L’EPOQUE LOUIS XVI
ESTAMPILLE DE ROGER VANDERCRUSE DIT LACROIX, VERS 1780
En acajou et placage d’acajou, ornementation de bronze ciselé et doré, à double face, le plateau gainé de cuir noir et ceint d’une astragale, chaque face présentant un tiroir central et deux vantaux appliqués de larges rosaces dans un encadrement de feuilles d'eau et de rosettes en écoinçons découvrant chacun deux tiroirs, les chutes à décor de pampre de vigne, reposant sur huit pieds fuselés et cannelés à asperges terminés par des sabots feuillagés surmontés de godrons, estampillé 'R.V.L.C', 'R.LACROIX' et 'JME' sous une traverse latérale ; petit accident
H. 78,5 cm. (31 in.) ; L. 195,5 cm. (77 in.) ; P. 98 cm. (38 ½ in.)
Roger Vandercruse dit Lacroix, reçu maître en 1755.




Provenance

Collection du comte et de la comtesse Greffulhe, vers 1880, Hôtel Greffulhe, rue d’Astorg, Paris.
Collection du duc et de la duchesse de Gramont, après 1952, Hôtel de Gramont, avenue Henri-Martin, Paris.
Vente Christie’s, Paris, le 7 décembre 2001, lot 676.
Collection privée européenne.



Literature

« Un demi-siècle à l’hôtel Gramont », Connaissance des Arts, n°141, novembre 1963, pp.96-97 et p.100.
Anne de Cossé-Brissac, La comtesse Greffulhe, Terre de Femmes, Perrin, 1991.



Further details

A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY DESK STAMPED BY ROGER VANDERCRUSE CALLED LACROIX, CIRCA 1780
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