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拍品专文
Few pieces of furniture in marqueterie de paille are known to exist due to the fragile character of this type of marquetry. Popular since the mid-17th Century, straw-work objects as boxes, containers, games-boards and other accessories were the fashinable objects sold by the marchands-merciers. It is from the second half of the 18th Century, that marchands such as Delasson were selling -and manufacturing- not only little objects, but a whole range of pieces of furniture in coloured marqueterie de paille. Delasson advertised in 1784 'ouvrages en paille... comme tables à l'anglaise, commodes à la Bourgogne....', and due to his success, three years later he advertised a 'bureaux et encoignures couverts en paille de couleur à fleurs, ornés de bronzes dorés et à dessus de marbre'.
Very much in favour around 1780, straw-work was popular in France as well as in England, where the duchess of Rutland was a great admirer. This occasional table has two large panels on the sides depicting on one side a turkish or oriental couple, him smoking a pipe, and to the other side exotic fighters. Oriental and exotic scenes were among the favourite subjets during the second half of the 18th Century.
Various straw-work marquetry items of furniture are illustrated in L. de Caunes, S. Goldszal, C. Baumgartner, La Marqueterie de Paille, Paris, 1993, pp. 66 - 67, 69, 74, 80 - 81, and an elaborate coiffeuse, illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, Le Meuble Louis XVI, London, 1963, pls. 104 - 105, is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight.
Among the rare sold pieces of straw-work furniture, we can mention:-
A bureau à gradins stamped Nicolas Petit from the collection of the Hon. Lady Baillie, sold Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1974, lot 169.
A bureau en pente, offered Sotheby's, London, 27 October 1990, lot 75.
A work table from the Roberto Polo collection, sold Ader Tajan, Paris, 7 November 1991, lot 146.
An occasional table from the Giuseppe Rossi collection, sold Sotheby's, London, 11 March 1999, lot 701.
Very much in favour around 1780, straw-work was popular in France as well as in England, where the duchess of Rutland was a great admirer. This occasional table has two large panels on the sides depicting on one side a turkish or oriental couple, him smoking a pipe, and to the other side exotic fighters. Oriental and exotic scenes were among the favourite subjets during the second half of the 18th Century.
Various straw-work marquetry items of furniture are illustrated in L. de Caunes, S. Goldszal, C. Baumgartner, La Marqueterie de Paille, Paris, 1993, pp. 66 - 67, 69, 74, 80 - 81, and an elaborate coiffeuse, illustrated in F.J.B. Watson, Le Meuble Louis XVI, London, 1963, pls. 104 - 105, is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight.
Among the rare sold pieces of straw-work furniture, we can mention:-
A bureau à gradins stamped Nicolas Petit from the collection of the Hon. Lady Baillie, sold Sotheby's, London, 13 December 1974, lot 169.
A bureau en pente, offered Sotheby's, London, 27 October 1990, lot 75.
A work table from the Roberto Polo collection, sold Ader Tajan, Paris, 7 November 1991, lot 146.
An occasional table from the Giuseppe Rossi collection, sold Sotheby's, London, 11 March 1999, lot 701.