BOULLE BRACKET CLOCK - LEATHER TRAVELLING TRUNK - BRASS CANDELABRA - BOULLE CABINETS - ANTIQUE JARDINIERE
BOULLE BRACKET CLOCK - LEATHER TRAVELLING TRUNK - BRASS CANDELABRA - BOULLE CABINETS - ANTIQUE JARDINIERE
A FINE Louis XV LEATHER TRAVELLING TRUNK.
attributed to Pierre Vente, the domed top with the Arms of the Mesdames and lifting to reveal a blue silk-lined interior, the lower part of the front falling to reveal three long drawers all lined in blue watered silk, the whole of the exterior covered in gilt-tooled red leather and with brass carrying handles at the sides, on a gilt table stand with cabriole legs carved with leaves and flowers,19th Century.
A trunk of very similar form and made for Marie-Antoinette was exhibited: Marie-Antoinette, Archiduchesse, Dauphine et Reine, Versailles.
A Louis XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CONSOLE-DESSERTE stamped C.C. Saunier the frieze with a central drawer flanked by hinged bowed drawers,
Claude-Charles Saunier (1735-1807) was received Master in 1752.
A PAIR OF ORMOLU CHENETS of Louis XV STYLE.
A FINE AND LARGE REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOULLE BRACKET CLOCK. The 10-inch
matted and repousse dial with black cnamcl numerals, thc movement with outside count wheel, the backplate signed Jouard A Paris; surmounted by a figure of Vktory above an oval dorne with latticed boulle panels, the four-horsed chariot of the sun below and scrolled feet headed by winged female busts, the sides and interior of the back door inlaid with formal scrollwork in brass and pewter; on a concave-sided base with a central satyr mask, grotesque heads at the corners and acanthus feet.
Louis Jouard was reeeived Master in 1724.
A VERY FINE Louis XVI ORMOLU, ENAMEL AND MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK. The 5-inch dial with an enamel chapter ring incorporating a calendar dial, delicately pierced hands, visible minute work and age and phase of the moon dial above signed Coteau Invt Fecit; the movement with circular plates, outside count wheel and anchor pin-wheel escapement, surmounted by an eagle and with acanthus and grapes framing the dial, with deep blue and turquoise enamel below and a breakfront marble base faced with ormolu flowerheads and enamel plaques. The enamel work of the highest quality throughout; the dial with delicate gilt leaves, the moon dial with heart’s ease, gilt stars surrounding the image of the moon, also with a later miniature below framed in pastes and flanked by shaped panels of heart’s ease above figures of Drawing and Astronomy on a turquoise ground, the base with a cherub and two doves framed in pearls and flanked by green and silver leaf scrolls, the ormolu incorporating a finely chased trophy with a quiver minutely engraved si vis videbis. formerly with another, dial possibly months of theyear, in place of the miniature.
Joseph Coteau was the most renowned enameller during the reign of Louis xvi There is a similar clock by Coteau in the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Lyons.
A Louis XVI SEVRES PORCELAIN AND ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK
with an enamel dial signed Maniere A Paris, the signed movement with later balance, the columnar case painted in light and dark blue with gilt husks and chains of flowers in the flutes, on a laurel-bound base and rectangular plinth mounted with four panels of flowers in light blue borders, formerly with a cresting.
Possibly by Charles Guillaume Maniere, Master from 1778 to 1810.
A PAIR OF ROCK-CRYSTAL AND BRASS CANDELABRA, each with four candie-branches hung with faceted drops, partly hung with 18th Century rock-crystal.
A GILWOOD CHILD’S FAUTEUIL, in Louis xv style
and the motto Deplus Haut Sailly, cane seat, on cabriole legs.
A PAIR OF ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOULLE CABINETS, each with two doors inlaid with strapwork and arabesques in brass on a tortoiseshell and ebony ground with central female groun mask mounts.
A NAPOLEON III CIRCULAR GILTWOOD ROPE STOOL, in the manner of Fournier.
Madeleine Jarry and Pierre Devinoy, Le Siege Francais, illustrates one of a set of identical stools in the Chateau de Compiegne and another is illustrated in Hayward,
A. M. E. Fournier is recorded working under the Second Empire.
A SUITE OF THREE Louis xvi FAUTEUILS stamped Delaisement the rectangular backs and seats covered in contemporary Beauvais tapestry with chinoiserie figures.
Nicolas-Denis Delaisement was received Master in 1776.
AN EARLY LOUIS XVI PROVINCIAL WALNUT PANETIERE with a railed body,the door, cresting and apron carved with flowers.
A Pair of Louis xv carved giltwood Console Tables probably designed by Contant d’Ivry and possibly made by N. Q. Foliot, with serpentine breche-violette marble tops on scrolled cabriole legs, the stretchers supporting baskets of flowers.
A Eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France , illustrates a very similar pair of tables, supplied circa 1755 for the Salon in Count J. H. E. Bernstorff `s house in Copenhagen. The fire-place supplied from France for the same room was to a design by Contant d?Ivry, a copy of one he had designed for the Palais Royal. Contant d’Ivry also designed mirrors and console tables for the Palais Royal very similar to those in Count Bernstoff?s house and the above pair.
THURET A LATE LOUIS xiv TETE DE POUPEE QUARTER-STRIKING ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOULLE BRACKET CLOCK, the 9-inch dial and three train movement signed Thuret A Paris, the case with a cherub cresting and figure of Time holding a pair of scales below the dial, the front and sides inlaid on a brown shell ground with flowerheads and leaf scrolls, on a rectangular base with boldly modelled acanthus scroll apron and similar feet,
Bought by Baron Mayer de Rothschild.
Probably by Jacques-Augustin Thuret (son of Isaac), who was Clockmaker to the King in 1694.
ANOTHER SIMILAR WRITING-CASE with the ROYAL Armsand.
ANOTHER SIMILAR WRITING-CASE, also stamped Garnesson au Palais Royal, and with a label: Mr. Houssin Ingenieur en chef.
A Louis xv gilt-tooled leather Writing-Case with a hinged lower section and applied leather label: Mr. Frisefielt Receveur General du Grand Cathedrale de Strasbourg 1766.
A Louis XV ROYAL GILT-TOOLED RED MOROCCO LEATHER SMALL TRUNK, the top and front with the Arms of Queen Marie Leszcyznska and with the cypher M beneath an enclosed crown, the intcrior lined with blue watered silk.
A Louis XV ROYAL GILT-TOOLED RED MOROCCO LEATHER SMALL TRUNK by Pierre Vente, the top with the Arms of the Mesdames and lined in red watered silk,
A similar coffer, also made for one of the daughters of Louis xv and now in the Musee de Cluny, was exhibited at the Hotel de la Monnaie, Paris, 1974, Louis XV, Francais,. Other examples by Vent Louvre, the Musee Carnavalet and the Metronolitan Museum.
The archives of the Menus Plaisirs show that almost every year the Mesdames ordered at least one and sometimes several morocco leather coffers which when they were considered too shabby, were passed on to members of their suite - see Pierre Verlet, Recherche sur quelques coffres en usage a la cour de France a propos des deux coffres du Musee du Lisbonne Joao Couto, in memoriam, Lisbon 1971
Pierre Vente (born 1722) became book-binder to the Menus Plaisirs du Roi in 1753,having previously been under the protection of the Marechal de Richelieu. He was still recorded working as late as 1792.
AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN AND JAPANESE LACQUER ENCRIER, THE SHAPED base with thrcc lidded pots and an ormolu tree supporting two candle-branches.
A Louis XVI BOIS DE CITRON PARQUETRY TABLE, stamped rvlcjme, vencered a quatre faces with interlocking green flowerhead trellis and with an interlaced ORMOLU FRIEZE, square tapering legs headed by ormolu patera, containing two drawers.
Roger Vandercruse (1728-1799), called Lacroix, was received Master in 1755.
AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARQUETRY TABLE, the circular top with two frieze DRAWERS and two candie slides, on fluted legs, inlaid with purpleheart and fruitwood on a satinwood ground.
A Louis XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED mahogany Stand the manner of A. Waeisweiler, with an inset white marble top, the frieze with a fallfront drawer and with later female mask corner mounts.
Les Ehernstes da XVIIle Sieele Francais figures 1 and 2 illustrates two cabinets attributed to Weisweiler, one in the Metropolitan Museum and the other in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, both with stands similar to the present example.
Adam was received Master in 1778.
An ORMOLU-MOUNTED mahogany JARDINIERE of Directoire style, the rectangular container on square tapering legs, with a metal liner Watson, Louis XVI Furmture, illustrates a similar secretaire attributed to Henri Riesener in the Victoria and Albert Museum. In his note to the illustration the author mentions the commode and companio secretaire from Mentmore. He writes: An identical secretaire en suite with a chest of drawers was in the WATSON Taylor sale, This sale was outstandingly rich IN furniture etc., from the French royal collections and the catalogue describes both pieces as HAVING come from the Palace of Compiegne; they are now in an English private collection. In discussing the Victoria and Albert Secretaire he goes on to say : The high quality of the mounts outside and in the interior and the carefully chosen mirror-veneers of mahogany suggest THAT THIS, too, may be a royal piece. It is unstamped but must date from the very end of Louis XVI REIGN. Certain constructional details of the present secretaire, e.g., the fact that the interior FITTINGS cannot be withdrawn as a unit from the back, suggest that it was not made by J. H. RIESENER (maitre 1768) although it resembles his late works. It could perhaps be by E. Levasseur (MAITRE 1787) who also worked in a similar style.
A Louis XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK AND WHITE MARBLE MANTEL CLOCK, the enamel dial signed Ame. Martin a Paris and with day of the week and day of the month hands, the case decorated with cockerels and urns of flowers, on a serpentine-fronted base.
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