LOMBARD WALNUT COMMODES, Louis XV/XVI TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH COMMODE, LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK, Louis XVI SIDE CHAIRS
LOMBARD WALNUT COMMODES, Louis XV/XVI TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH COMMODE, LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK, Louis XVI SIDE CHAIRS
AN UNUSUAL SUITE OF GERMAN GROTTO SEAT FURNITURE comprising a three-seat
settee, six armchairs and a rocking chair, the tall carved silvered backs and seats with gilt-
wood dolphin arms on rockwork legs, the rocking chair on scroll dolphin supports and
the rockers with dolphin heads, 18th/19th Century
Provenance: Schloss Rheinsberg
A similar armchair, thought to have been made about 1760/70, is in the Kunst¬gewerbe Museum, Berlin, Schloss Kopenick, and is illustrated by Heinrich Kreisel, Die Kunst des
Deutschen Mobels, vol. II, figure 1111
A PAIR OF LOMBARD WALNUT COMMODES, each with a rectangular top, a drawer in the concave frieze, one also with a slide, with two further drawers in the concave lower part, on
cabriole legs, 2ft. 8in. high by 3ft. 5in. wide (81cm. by 104cm.) circa 1760
A Louis XV/XVI TRANSITIONAL TABLE signed Dusautoy and stamped JME, and with silvered mounts, the oval white marble top with a three-quarter gallery, the frieze inlaid with
flowerhead trellis and with a fitted drawer on one side raised on cabriole legs inlaid with chains of husks and ending in scroll sabots, and joined by a kidney-shaped stretcher
inlaid with a panel of flowers flanked by flowerhead trellis, circa 1780
Jean-Pierre Dusautoy, 1719-1800, was received Master in 1799
A LATE LOUIS XV GILTWOOD VOYEUSE, indistinctly stamped, probably Chevigny, with padded toprail, stufied lyre-shaped back, stufied saddle-shape seat and ^fluted tapering legs,
circa 1765
Tean Nicolay L’Art et la Maniere des Maitres Ebenistes Francais au XVIIIe Siecle, page 102, fig. C, illustrates a very simUar chair by Claude Chevigny, received Master in 1768
A Louis XV/XVI TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH
COMMODE stamped J. C. Stumpf/, with mottled grey and white marble top, the front
with a gently swelling centre section and containing three small and two long drawers, the
rounded corners inlaid to simulate fluting, on cabriole legs, 2ft. Hin. high by 4ft. 4V2in.
wide (89cm. by 134cm.) circa 1775
Jean-Chrysostome StumpfT, 1731-1806, received Master in 1766
A FINE AND RARE MAHOGANY BUREAU attributed to Abraham Roentgen, the top
and shaped fall-front inlaid with a chequer banding, the interior fitted with an arrangement
of shaped rosewood-veneered drawers above a plain frieze drawer and shaped kneehole flanked
to each side by a deep drawer with tambour lid and hinged opening to reveal tulipwood-
veneered drawers, on cabriole legs with brass mounts, 3ft. high by 3ft. 3?2in. wide (91.5cm. by
100.5cm.) circa 1765, Neuwied
Hans Huth, Roentgen Furniture, London 1974, illustrates a very similar bureau, plate 18, in the Neues Schloss at Baden Baden
A Louis XV ORMOLU MANTEL CLOCK, the (later) enamel dial and movement signed Balthazard A Paris, in a waisted case with a reclining cherub cresting, the whole profusely chased
with shellwork, scrolls and leaves, 20in. high (51cm.) circa 1760
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU CARTEL CLOCK with a 9in. (cracked) enamel dial and pierced
gilt hands, the movement with rectangular plates and outside count wheel, the case sur-
mounted by an urn and with pineapple finials, acanthus flanking the dial and a female
mask below, 37in. high (94cm.) circa 1780
A LOUIS XV/XVI TRANSITIONAL BOIS SATINE COMMODE, the shaped moulded
brown and green mottled marble top above an ormolu-mounted frieze divided as two
drawers above two drawers inlaid with ribbon tied musical instruments, sheet music and
flowers with a moulded ormolu mount flanked by an ormolu moulded panel inlaid with
drapes and above an ormolu-mounted frieze on ormolu moulded cabriole legs, 2ft. lO’Mn.
high by 4ft. 2in. wide (87cm. by 127cm.) circa 1775
AN EARLY LOUIS XVI MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT with a mottled grey
marble top and a drawer in the frieze, the fall-front inlaid with a spray of flowers and
leaves and enclosing a fitted interior, with a pair of doors below, 4ft. 6in. high by 2ft. 7in.
wide (138cm. by 79cm.) circa 1775
A SMALL LOUIS XVI QUARTER-REPEATING ORMOLU CARTEL TIMEPIECE, the (chipped) 4V2in. enamel dial signed Olin a Paris, the similarly signed movement with circular plates and
repeating on one bell Struck by two hammers, the case surmounted by an um and decorated with scrolls, acanthus and swags of bay, 18in. high (46cm.) ?800-1200
A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU AND BRONZE MANTEL CLOCK, the case stamped St. Germain, the enamel dial signed Charles Le Roy A Paris and with pierced gilt hands, the similarly signed
movement with later escapement and outside numbered count wheel, the case surmounted by a lamp and resting on a fluted column, a cockerel at one side and a bronze seated female
figure at the other, the base with a band of fret hung with swags of leaves, on ebony-veneered base mounted with trefoils, 22in. high (56cm.) circa 1770
Jean-Joseph de Saint Germain is mentioned in L’Almanach General des Marchands in 1747 and 1772, with his address, rue Saint Nicolas in the Faubourg Saint Antoine
AN EARLY LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLEU-TURQUIN MARBLE VASE of navette shape, the lid surmounted by a pomegranate finial with leaves below, the pierced vitruvian scroll frieze
centred at each side by a mask with swags of oak branches, the leaf-cast fluted handles supported by leafy moustachioed masks, the gadrooned body raised on a waisted socle and
fluted and bead-moulded plinth, Whin. high (31.5cm.) circa 1775
AN UNUSUAL LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD BAROMETER with an oval paper register
plate signed Par Sormanif Rue de L’Arbre sec No. 17 a Paris, with a thermometer in the
centre, the frame with swags of flowers and leaves, an um cresting and a sunburst mask
below, 43V2in. high (110cm.) circa 1780
A Louis XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY REGULATOR of long duration, the
dished 13in. enamel dial signed Lepaute A Paris and with pierced engraved gilt hands,
steel centre seconds hand and an enamel calendar ring below VI mounted on a wheel
revolving once a year, the weight-driven movement with shaped plates, piain pillars, four
wheel train with delicate wheelwork and incomplete pin-wheel escapement, the massive
compensation gridiron pendulum with knife-edge suspension from a bracket attached to
the backboard, temperature indication and lenticular bob, the case with a moulded rec-
tangular hood and mounted with bands of petal moulding, flowerheads and a female mask
in the waist door, 7ft. Hin. high (240cm.) circa 1785, plinth lacking
A Louis XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND TULIPWOOD MARQUETRY CONSOLE DESSERTE, stamped J. Stockei JME, bow-fronted and with a white marble top, the frieze inlaid with an
interlaced geometric strapwork design and containing a central drawer flanked by pivoted segment-shaped drawers, the Supports inlaid to simulate fluting, and with a panelled
back, conforming shelf stretcher, and turned tapering legs also inlaid to simulate fluting, 2ft. Hin. high by 3ft. 4in. wide (88cm. by 102cm.) circa 1775
Joseph Stockei, 1743-1802, was received Master in 1775
A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD FAUTEUILS, one stamped G. Jacob, each arched
top-rail centred by flowers and with stuffed backs, padded arms with scroll terminais and
stuffed seats on stop-fluted tapering legs, circa 1780
Georges Jacob, 1739-1814, received Master in 1765
A SET OF FOUR Louis XVI PAINTED ARMCHAIRS with rectangular moulded backs,
downswept moulded panelied arms with scroll handles on stop-fluted supports, the stuffed
seats on moulded seatrails and turned tapering fluted and stop-fluted legs headed by
flowerheads, circa 1780, one pair decorated in off-white, the other in off-white and beige,
one reduced in height
A PAIR OF Louis XVI SIDE CHAIRS, similar, but with rounded front corners,
circa 1780
A Louis XVI CARVED GILTWOOD AND GESSO CONSOLE with fleur de peche marble
top, the frieze carved with leafy wave motif and hung with garlands of flowers, raised on
fluted tapering legs, the guilloche-carved stretcher centred by a flower-draped um, 2ft. 9in.
high by 2ft. 11 in. wide (84cm. by 89cm.) circa 1780
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