A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED THUYA, EBONY AND JAPANESE LACQUER SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT

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Lot 13 | A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED THUYA, EBONY AND JAPANESE LACQUER SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED THUYA, EBONY AND JAPANESE LACQUER SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT

BY ADAM WEISWEILER, AND ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED BY DOMINIQUE DAGUERRE, THE ORMOLU POSSIBLY BY FRANÇOIS REMOND, CIRCA 1790-1795

The rouge griotte marble top over palmette and anthemion frieze atop black and gold lacquered front and side panels flanked by turned and tapered columnar supports, central fall-front mounted with an ormolu roundel depicting Minerva teaching a mother and her children, the fall-front opening to an interior fitted with four drawers, the lower long drawer mounted with an ormolu plaque depicting agricultural pursuits and resting on faceted tapered legs connected by a stretcher on toupie feet; the top with painted inventory number 'R162', with additional label indistinctly inscribed '...Cire Meuble-5-1199', the back with paper label inscribed in ink 'E de R No 14' and 'No 182 / CN53 / 1..2..75 X 40' in white chalk, the underside of marble with Rothschild label inscribed in ink 'No 2' and with Chenue transit label 'P. Cervonnier', '3325' in pencil, 'SABET 10075' and '#10 D6714 1 OF 2' on packing tape; the ormolu plaque of the fall-front probably original, but of slightly different chasing and gilding, indicating a possible change of heart in the commission

49 ¾ in. (126.4 cm.) high, 27 ½ in. (70 cm.) wide, 13 ½ in. (34.3 cm.) deep





Provenance

Recorded with the dealer Daval, rue de Seine, Paris in 1822.

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild (1827-1905), recorded in an inventory drawn up following his death, in the Hôtel Saint-Florentin in the ‘Chambre sur la rue St Florentin’.

Thence by descent to his son Baron Edouard de Rothschild (1868-1949).

Confiscated from the above by Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) and transferred to the Jeu de Paume after the Nazi occupation in 1941 (R 162).

Recovered by the Monuments Fine Arts and Archives Section from Alt Aussee, Austria and transferred to the Munich Central Collecting Point, 20 June 1945 (MCCP no. 610).

Restituted to Edouard de Rothschild, 1 March 1946.

Acquired from the Succession of Baronne Edouard (Germaine Alice Halphen) de Rothschild (1884-1975).

Collection of Habib Sabet (1903-1990), Paris and New York.

Thence by descent within the family.



Literature

P. Lemonnier, Weisweiler, 1983, p. 180, no. 76.
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