A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND VERNIS MARTIN DECORATED MEUBLE D'APPUI, by Mathieu Befort, with a red marble breakfront top and rounded corners, the hinged panelled door decorated with a Vernis Martin panel of two cherubs fishing and flanked to each side by ribbon-tied foliate pendants, the angles each with three-quarter columns and foliate-cast chandelles, the panelled sides with a foliate-cast motif, on toupie feet,stamped BEFORT JEUNE, once behind the Vernis Martin panel and once below the leaf-cast rim beneath the door, second half 19th Century

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND VERNIS MARTIN DECORATED MEUBLE D'APPUI, by Mathieu Befort, with a red marble breakfront top and rounded corners, the hinged panelled door decorated with a Vernis Martin panel of two cherubs fishing and flanked to each side by ribbon-tied foliate pendants, the angles each with three-quarter columns and foliate-cast chandelles, the panelled sides with a foliate-cast motif, on toupie feet,stamped BEFORT JEUNE, once behind the Vernis Martin panel and once below the leaf-cast rim beneath the door, second half 19th Century
41½in. (105.5cm.) wide; 19½in. (49.5cm.) high; 17in. (43.2cm.) deep

拍品专文

The Parisian ébéniste-marqueteur, Mathieu Befort, the son of Jean-Baptiste Befort (d.1840), had workshops in the rue Neuve-Saint-Gilles between 1844 and 1880. Conceived in the Louis XVI manner of the 1770s, this ormolu-mounted commode, with its Boucher-like sporting scene of a youthful fisherman and his companion, combines elements from the work of the Cours-ébénistes J.-H. Riesener (maître 1768) and A. Weisweiler (maître 1778).