THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR (LOT 565)

A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND CHINESE LACQUER, MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY MEUBLE A TRANSFORMATION

STAMPED 'J. F. OEBEN' AND 'JME', MID-18TH CENTURY

细节

A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND CHINESE LACQUER, MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY MEUBLE A TRANSFORMATION
STAMPED 'J. F. OEBEN' AND 'JME', MID-18TH CENTURY
The rectangular Chinese lacquer top decorated with a seascape, houses and huntsmen, the serpentine rising frieze-section and lower part with cartouche-shaped panels, one side with a drawer concealing a leather-lined hinged reading-surface and pen tray and a lower compartment, the lower part with a central parquetry cartouche framed by scrolled cross-banding on all four sides, the fall-front quarter-veneered and banded by a molded border enclosing three panelled long drawers, the lower one when removed hiding a further compartment with sliding top, the angles with central C-scrolled cartouches, flanked by foliage and concealing the mechanism for raising the top which is supported on square iron bars, stamped to the underside
35¼ in. (90 cm.) high (closed), 25¼ in. (64 cm.) wide, 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

来源

Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 2 December 1998, lot 40.

拍场告示

Please note that this lot is remounted.

拍品专文

Jean-François Oeben, maître in 1763.

This sarcophagus-swelled combined writing-table and jewel-chest, wrapped by Roman acanthus and elegantly serpentined, is further embellished with tablets of golden tulipwood veneer rayed from ribbon-framed mosaic cartouches of basket-weave parquetry. Typifying Jean-François Oeben's ingenious and complicated meubles à transformation for which he was famous, this piece was possibly used as a jewel chest with drawers concealed behind a securely hinged fall-front, and as a secrétaire mécanique-pupitre with this rising cornice concealing a bureau drawer fitted to its side.