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By Martin CARLIN for Madame Victoire at the Château de Belle…
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By Martin CARLIN for Madame Victoire at the Château de Belle…
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Estimate €3,000 - €6,000
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Description
By Martin CARLIN for Madame Victoire at the Château de Belle-Vue
Early 20th-century piece from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine – LARGE CHEST OF DRAWERS with a central projection, finished in Japanese-style lacquer with a decoration of figures in landscapes, blackened wood and richly ornamented with gilded bronze fittings
It opens to reveal three drawers around the waist and three doors; the central door features a lacquered panel framed by a porphyry-effect varnish, revealing three drawers with fronts inlaid with two-tone lozenges within a mahogany frame
Side panels with freestanding columns, fluting, godrons and lion’s paws
White marble top
Front crossbar with a wide apron, eight cloven feet
Gilded bronze ornamentation featuring garlands of fruit and ribbon-wrapped holly branches
97 x 155 x 55.5 cm
(lacquer panels missing; bronze fittings encrusted with grime)
Bibliography: The original model, dated c. 1785, is held at the Louvre Museum.
Supplied by the dealer Darnault for the grand cabinet of Madame Victoire (1733–1799), daughter of Louis XV, at the Château de Bellevue; sent, during the First Empire, to the Château de Fontainebleau, the Château de Saint-Cloud and then to the Palais des Tuileries from 1861 onwards; transferred to the Louvre by decision of the Commission for the Civil List and Private Estates on 12 September 1870.
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