PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF JAMES SELIGMAN (LOTS 376 - 384)

A LOUIS XVI TULIPWOOD, SYCAMORE, GREEN-STAINED AND MARQUETRY TABLE EN CHIFFONIERE

CIRCA 1775

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A LOUIS XVI TULIPWOOD, SYCAMORE, GREEN-STAINED AND MARQUETRY TABLE EN CHIFFONIERE
CIRCA 1775
Inlaid with ruin landscapes to top and front and still-lives to other surfaces, the rectangular top with pierced three-quarter gallery and framed panel above three long drawers, the top one with brown leather-lined writing surface, flanked by husk-trails and on square tapering legs joined by an undertier and terminating in caps, bearing spurrious stamp 'C. TOPINO', the top and undertier re-laid
31 in. (79 cm.) high, 19½ in. (50 cm.) wide, 13½ in. (34 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

With its pictorial marquetry depicting ruins, this small table is related to pieces with similar marquetry stamped by such celebrated ébénistes as André-Louis Gilbert (maître in 1774), Pierre Roussel (maître in 1745), Christophe Wolff (maître in 1755) and Jacques Dautriche (maître in 1765). The pictorial marquetry panels were often based on engraved sources, on these pieces appear to have been made by one or a group of specialty marqueteurs who supplied such ébénistes as Jacques van Oostenrik, dit Dautriche, Daniel Deloose, Pierre Denizot, André Louis Gilbert, Pierre Macret, Martin Ohnenberg, Nicolas Petit, Charles Topino, Christophe Wolff and Pierre Roussel (G. de Bellaigue, 'Engravings and the French Eighteenth Century Marqueteur', Burlington Magazine, May 1965, pp. 240 - 250 and July 1965, pp. 356 - 363).

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