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拍品专文
This impressive cabinet reflects the sophisticated antiquarian taste of collectors of the 1820s and 1830s. Its combination of ebony veneers and sober architectural mounts recalls the Boulle revival furniture of the 1760s specialized in by cabinet-makers such as Etienne Levasseur and Philippe-Claude Montigny, while it creatively reuses a panel of early 18th century tortoiseshell and ivory marquetry.
The taste for 'buhl' furniture was a particular passion among English collectors of the early 19th century and was promoted by dealers such as Edward Holmes Baldock, who would not only retail antique 18th century pieces, but would remodel and adapt antique pieces, and also create entirely new pieces to satisfy the tastes of his clients such as the Duke of Buccleuch and the Earl of Pembroke. Thus Baldock supplied a pair of Louis XVI cabinets by Etienne Levaseur, of related form and with the same leaf-form feet, to the Duke of Buccleuch for Boughton House (illustrated in T. Murdooch ed., Boughton House The English Versailles, London, 1992, p. 127), while the Duke of Wellington bought a celebrated group of Boulle furniture by Levasseur circa 1817 in Paris from Le Chevalier Féréol de Bonnemaison, a dealer who is thought to have collaborated with Baldock.
The cabinet offered here is likely to be by Levasseur jeune, Etienne Levasseur's grandson, who in 1823 inherited the business from
his father Pierre-Etienne. In 1822 Levasseur jeune advertised in the Bazar parisien his ability at restoring Boulle furniture (A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, Paris, 1989, p. 316). A pair of smaller side cabinets attributed to Levasseur jeune and with closely related mounts of putti emblematic of the Arts, was sold Christie's, London, 12 December 2002, lot 23.
THE MARQUETRY PANEL
The illusionistic interior scenes of the marquetry panel and its use of exotic materials, relates it to the work of German marqueteurs of first half of the 18th century. Particularly related marquetry panels include those on a bureau cabinet by Johann Weinspach, formerly at Schloss Bruchsal, and a table top in Schloss Berchtesgarden (H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels Spätbarock und Rokoko, Munich, 1970, vol. II, figs. 571 - 2 and 608). A related set of Boulle marquetry panels, with chinoiserie scenes set in similar architectural interiors, and with the coats-of-arms of the Schönborn family, was sold Sotheby's, London, 14 June 1996, lot 14.
The taste for 'buhl' furniture was a particular passion among English collectors of the early 19th century and was promoted by dealers such as Edward Holmes Baldock, who would not only retail antique 18th century pieces, but would remodel and adapt antique pieces, and also create entirely new pieces to satisfy the tastes of his clients such as the Duke of Buccleuch and the Earl of Pembroke. Thus Baldock supplied a pair of Louis XVI cabinets by Etienne Levaseur, of related form and with the same leaf-form feet, to the Duke of Buccleuch for Boughton House (illustrated in T. Murdooch ed., Boughton House The English Versailles, London, 1992, p. 127), while the Duke of Wellington bought a celebrated group of Boulle furniture by Levasseur circa 1817 in Paris from Le Chevalier Féréol de Bonnemaison, a dealer who is thought to have collaborated with Baldock.
The cabinet offered here is likely to be by Levasseur jeune, Etienne Levasseur's grandson, who in 1823 inherited the business from
his father Pierre-Etienne. In 1822 Levasseur jeune advertised in the Bazar parisien his ability at restoring Boulle furniture (A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, Paris, 1989, p. 316). A pair of smaller side cabinets attributed to Levasseur jeune and with closely related mounts of putti emblematic of the Arts, was sold Christie's, London, 12 December 2002, lot 23.
THE MARQUETRY PANEL
The illusionistic interior scenes of the marquetry panel and its use of exotic materials, relates it to the work of German marqueteurs of first half of the 18th century. Particularly related marquetry panels include those on a bureau cabinet by Johann Weinspach, formerly at Schloss Bruchsal, and a table top in Schloss Berchtesgarden (H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels Spätbarock und Rokoko, Munich, 1970, vol. II, figs. 571 - 2 and 608). A related set of Boulle marquetry panels, with chinoiserie scenes set in similar architectural interiors, and with the coats-of-arms of the Schönborn family, was sold Sotheby's, London, 14 June 1996, lot 14.