True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha
True Connoisseurship: The Collection of Ezra & Cecile Zilkha
A LOUIS XIV GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED BRASS AND TORTOISESHELL CONTRE-PARTIE MARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE, CIRCA 1715
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November 20, 10:09 PM GMT
Estimate
500,000 - 1,000,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A LOUIS XIV GILT-BRONZE MOUNTED BRASS AND TORTOISESHELL CONTRE-PARTIE MARQUETRY BUREAU PLAT ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRE-CHARLES BOULLE, CIRCA 1715
height 30 1/2 in.; width 78 in.; depth 37 1/4 in.
77.5 cm; 198 cm; 94.5 cm
Acquired by Jean Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville, Comte d'Arnouville (1701-1794) and placed in the Grand Cabinet of the Château d'Arnouville, together with a cartonnier and clock by Pierre Gaudron
By descent to his son Charles d'Arnouville (1747-1830), Château d'Arnouville
By descent to his daughter Geneviève Françoise Aglaé de Machault, Comtesse de Choiseul-Daillecourt (1801-1869), Château d'Arnouville
By descent to her son Léon de Choiseul-Daillecourt (d.1879), Rue Traktir, Paris
By descent to his son Charles de Choiseul-Daillecourt (d.1884), Château de Saint-Pierre-Eglise
By descent to his sister Alix de Choiseul-Daillecourt, by whom sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 21 May 1896, lot 3 (bureau plat, cartonnier, and clock)
Collection of the Prince de Wagram
Jaime Ortiz Patiño Collection, Sotheby's New York, 20 May 1992, lot 59 (bureau plat)
Alexandre Pradère, French Furniture Makers: The Art of the Ébéniste from Louis XIV to the Revolution, London 1989
Vincent Pruchnicki, Arnouville: le château des Machault au XVIIIe siècle, Paris 2013
Jean Nérée Ronfort, André Charles Boulle (1642-1732): Un nouveau style pour l'Europe, Paris 2009