Lot 1174* - A212 Decorative Arts - jeudi, 27. mars 2025, 13h30
LACQUERED COMMODE
Louis XV, Paris, mid-18th century.
Wood with European black lacquer work, lacquered on all sides in the “goût chinois” with pagodas and a park landscape, figures, exotic plants and animals. Curved, trapezoidal body with prominent front corner studs on a wavy cut-out frame with curved legs. Front with 2 sans-traverse drawers. Chiseled, gilt bronze mounts and sabots. Later, profiled “Brèche d'Alep” marble top. Signed J. Dubois.
115 × 50 × 85 cm.
Provenance:
- European private collection.
Lacquer with numerous restorations and retouches. Losses and cracks. Bronze mounts partly later and partly incomplete.
Comparable lacquer chests of drawers made by Jacques Dubois are illustrated in: P. Kjellberg: Le mobilier français du XVIIIe siècle. Paris 1989, p. 268, fig. A/B. Also in the auction catalog for the Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild Collection, Hermann Ball/Paul Graupe, Berlin, auction 24.3.1931, nos. 127 and 128. These commodes sometimes have very similar bronze fittings.
Comparable lacquer chests of drawers made by Jacques Dubois are illustrated in: P. Kjellberg: Le mobilier français du XVIIIe siècle. Paris 1989, p. 268, fig. A/B. Also in the auction catalog for the Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild Collection, Hermann Ball/Paul Graupe, Berlin, auction 24.3.1931, nos. 127 and 128. These commodes sometimes have very similar bronze fittings.
CHF 30 000 / 50 000 | (€ 30 930 / 51 550)
Vendu pour CHF 33 125 (frais inclus)