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COMMODE ROYALE A VANTAUX D`EPOQUE TRANSITION

Lot 13
22.11.2022 16:00UTC +01:00
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€ 942 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 859317
Lot 13 | COMMODE ROYALE A VANTAUX D'EPOQUE TRANSITION
Estimate value
€ 800 000 – 1 200 000
COMMODE ROYALE A VANTAUX D'EPOQUE TRANSITION

ESTAMPILLE DE PIERRE MACRET, VERS 1770

En tôle vernie, ornementation de bronze ciselé et doré, le dessus de marbre blanc veiné gris, à décor de paysages sinisants animés de personnages dans des réserves, la façade ouvrant par deux vantaux dévoilant une étagère, les montants ornés d'un treillage, appliqués de chutes à mufle de lion, prolongés par des pieds cambrés et terminés par des feuillages, estampillée d?eux fois MACRET sur chacune des traverses latérales et portant à deux reprises les marques au feu DFT sous une couronne et GRC sous une couronne

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H.: 88,5 cm. (34 3/4 in.) ; L.: 135 cm. (52 3/4 in.) ; P.: 61,5 cm. (24 1/2 in.)

Pierre Macret, reçu marchand ébéniste privilégié du roi suivant la cour en 1756





Provenance

Très probablement livrée au garde meuble de la dauphine Marie-Antoinette à Compiègne avant juillet 1770;

Vente anonyme, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, 3 juin 1985.



Literature

Bibliographie comparative:

A. Pradère, Les ébénistes français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p. 221.

T. Wolvesperges, le Meuble français en laque au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 2000, p. 235, fig. 116.

P. Arizzoli-Clémentel, Le Mobilier de Versailles, XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, t. 2, Dijon, 2002, pp. 145-147.

Cat. exp. "Louis XVI et Marie Antoinette à Compiègne", Paris, 2006, p. 42, fig. 21.

Cat. exp., 18e Aux Sources du Design, chefs-d'oeuvres du mobilier, 1650-1790, Versailles, 2014, pp. 204-205, no. 59.

Cat. exp. Les secrets de la laque française, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, 2014, p. 290.



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A ROYAL LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED PAINTED-TÔLE COMMODE STAMPED BY PIERRE MACRET, CIRCA 1770
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