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SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT D`EPOQUE LOUIS XVI

Lot 145
14.12.2022 11:30UTC +01:00
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Starting price
€ 250 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationFrance, Paris
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ID 880500
Lot 145 | SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT D'EPOQUE LOUIS XVI
Estimate value
€ 250 000 – 400 000
SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT D'EPOQUE LOUIS XVI

PAR DAVID ROENTGEN, VERS 1780-1785

En acajou et placage d'acajou, ornementation de bronze ciselé et doré, la partie supérieure flanquée de quatre vases couverts, ouvrant par un abattant gainé d'un cuir vert doré aux petits fers et présentant un médaillon représentant un putto écrivant sur une tablette sous le regard attentif d'un coq, allégories de la Science et de la Vigilance, l'intérieur présentant huit tiroirs et deux étagères, flanqué de pilastres cannelés et rudentés, le piètement reposant sur huit montants simulant des colonnes cannelées et rudentées réunis par une entretoise en plinthe et à degrés munie de roulettes, avec un numéro d'inventaire à la peinture rouge au revers d'un tiroir "AHK/32172", inscrit au crayon noir à deux reprises "32172" sur le plateau du piètement, avec un reste d'étiquette ancienne ".. 20e .... / .....XX.", et portant une étiquette bleue ancienne inscrite à l'encre bleue "55" ; décoloration du placage au dos

H.: 127 cm. (50 in.) ; L.: 127 cm. (50 in.) ; P.: 57 cm. (22 1/2 in.)





Provenance

Probablement livré à l'impératrice Catherine II de Russie vers 1784-1786 ;

Vente Christie's, Genève, 18 novembre 1974, lot 122 ;

Galerie Aveline, Paris, 1988.



Literature

D. Fabian, Roentgen Möbel aus Neuwied, 1986, p. 206, ill. 502.

Jean-Marie Rossi, 45 ans de passion, Paris, 2000, p. 62.



Bibliographie comparative :

D. Roche, Le Mobilier Français en Russie, Paris, 1913, vol. II, pl. LXXVIII.

H. Huth, Abraham und David Roentgen und ihre Neuwieder möbelwerkstatt, Berlin, 1928, p. 65 et pl 29.

J. M. Greber, Abraham und David Roentgen. Möbel für Europa, Starnberg, 1980, p. 326, ill. 685.

E. Ducamp, Pavlosk. The Palace and the Park, Paris, 1993, p. 148.



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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT BY DAVID ROENTGEN, CIRCA 1780-1785
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