View full screen - View 1 of Lot 756. A Louis XVI gilt-bronze-mounted tulipwood, amaranth, bois satiné and marquetry secrétaire, stamped by Pierre Pioniez, circa 1770.

A Louis XVI gilt-bronze-mounted tulipwood, amaranth, bois satiné and marquetry secrétaire, stamped by Pierre Pioniez, circa 1770

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Description

opening with a fall-front writing surface revealing four drawers, and four compartments; the lower section opening with two doors revealing a chest, stamped P. PIONIEZ and JME, the mounts re-gilt


134cm high, 92cm wide, 35cm deep; 52 ¾ in., 36 ¼ in., 13 ¾ in.

Collection privée de Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie, Schloss Ahlden, 28 avril 2024, lot 1494

Bibliographie comparative :

J. Nicolay, L’art et la manière des maîtres ébénistes français au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1956, page 371, fig. E

P. Kjellberg, Le mobilier français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, p 655 

Pierre Pioniez, cabinetmaker, received master in 1765

The marquetry used of quatrefoils within circles on this secretaire is similar to a corpus of works stamped or not by Pioniez, notably illustrated by P. Kjellberg, Le mobilier français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, on a small salon table p. 655 and J. Nicolay, L'art et la manière des maîtres ébénistes français au XVIIIe siècle, on a commode p. 371, fig. E.