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Jacques Dubois, attributed

A Louis XV gilt bronze mounted Japanese lacquer and 'vernis martin bureau à pente', the Japanese lacquer panels decorated overall with landscapes and with an exotic bird to the reverse, the fall-front enclosing a red lacquer interior with five drawers, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus-cast angle mounts terminating in scrolling sabots, the underside indistinctly inscribed in white chalk 'Weiller'. C. 1750, the Japanese lacquer 17th/18th century. H. 91.5 cm. W. 85 cm. D. 45 cm.

Provenance: Mr. and Mrs. Sidney and Jenny Brown-Sulzer, Switzerland, assembled one of the most important collections of French Impressionists before the First World War, to which they added a fine collection of French furniture and Chinese porcelain in the 1920's.

The inscription 'Weiller' on the underside of this bureau refers to the French industrialist, philanthropist and art collector Paul Louis Weiller (1893–1993).

German Private Collection: Sotheby's, London, 8 December 1995, lot 137. The Collection of Josette Day Solvay; Etude Tajan, Paris, 17 December 2002, lot J. Christies, New York, 29–20 November 2012, lot. 136.

Jacques Dubois (1694–1765) was a French eighteenth century master cabinetmaker, born in Pontoise. Dubois was cabinetmaker to the king and he made beautiful work for Princess Louise Élisabeth, Duchess of Parma, the Duke of Orleans and the nobility of the time. He specialized in veneers varnish, red or black lacquers reproducing the effects of the Far East, decorated with Chinese pagodas and ornaments of very high level of quality.

Condition

Condition report on request.

Auction

Russian sale, furniture & varia, 2 December 2016

Category
Estimate

400,000–600,000 DKK

Price realised

Not sold