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A set of four ivory painted, parcel-gilt and gessoed doors, early Louis XV, circa 1730
Estimate
25,000 - 40,000 GBP
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Description
- Total height with frame: 252cm., 8ft. 3¼in.; without frame: 243cm., 7ft. 11½in.; Total width with frame 102cm., 3ft. 4in.; width without frame: 83cm., 2ft. 9in.
each with a rectangular panel centred by a stylised patera within a c-scroll cartouche, three with a rectangular panel carved with the Trophies of Love, above a further square panel, the whole carved with rocaille, scrolls and foliage, two plain on the back; formerly part of a boiserie
Provenance
Fischer-Böhler, Munich
Catalogue Note
Comparative Literature:
Bruno Pons, De Paris à Versailles, 1699-1736, Strasbourg, 1983, plate 414, for a door from la chambre de la reine, at the château de Versailles, conceived in a similar vein to these doors, reproduced here in fig. 1.
Also see Pons, op. cit., plate 275, for a pair of doors originally from l'hôtel de Lassay, Paris with panels on the lower section with scroll carved corners similar to those on the offered doors, now in the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, reproduced here in fig. 2.