Lot 170
  • 170

Pierre Bobot

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • Pierre Bobot
  • "Paradise"
  • inscribed Pierre Bobot with cipher
  • carved, gilt, and polychrome lacquered wood panels
comprising fifteen panels decorated with a stylized mythical garden with various flora and fauna centered by a figure of Bacchus and a dancing classical maiden

Provenance

Hôtel des Ventes de Corbeil-Essones, Maîtres Jean-Pierre Bonduelle and Jean-Marc Lancry, December 11, 2004, lot 244

Literature

Lumière Du Laque: Pierre Bobot au Musée Carnavalet, Paris, 2002

Catalogue Note

By repute these panels were part of a commission by Jules Leleu and Pierre Bobot for a dining room.

Sotheby’s would like thank Marie-Thérèse Bobot  for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.