A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS INLAID EBONY MEUBLES D’APPUI

Lot 37
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Lot 37 | A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS INLAID EBONY MEUBLES D’APPUI
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£ 200 000 – 250 000
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS INLAID EBONY MEUBLES D’APPUI
BY PIERRE GARNIER CIRCA 1775
The rectangular moulded brèche d'Alep marble top above two cupboard doors inlaid with brass fillets and inset with a central panel with beaded border, centred by a rosette opening to reveal an interior with two shelves, flanked by stop-fluted uprights headed by rosettes, the sides inlaid with brass fillets on spirally fluted tapering toupie feet raised on later ebony blocks, one stamped once ‘P. GARNIER’ the other stamped twice.
33. ¼ in. (84.5 cm) high; 38 ½ in (97.8 cm.) wide; 15 in. (38 cm.) deep




Provenance

Most probably supplied to Abel-François Poisson de Vandières, marquis de Marigny (1727-1781), between 1775 and 1779.
Collection Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun (1748-1813), until sold, Paris, 29 September 1806, lot 415, to Mr Lafayance.
The property of a lady; Christie's, London, 20 June 1985, lot 64.
European private collection.
Excellence; Sotheby’s, Paris, 13 November 2018, lot 30.



Literature

A. Pradère, "L'Ameublement du marquis de Marigny vers 1780", L'Estampille, no. 193, June 1986, pp. 44-57.
A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p. 249, fig. 256.
C. H. de Quénetain, Pierre Garnier, Paris, 2003, pp. 71-72, cat. 134.
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