Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume III : À travers l’Hôtel Lambert
Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume III : À travers l’Hôtel Lambert
A pair of Régence gilt-bronze three-light wall appliques, circa 1715 and later, attributed to the workshop of André-Charles Boulle
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October 13, 06:27 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 EUR
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A pair of Régence gilt-bronze three-light wall appliques, circa 1715 and later, attributed to the workshop of André-Charles Boulle
the scrolling arms issuing from the acanthus foliage backplate, four bobèches and nozzles associated partly second half 18th century, some later leaf elements, drilled for electricity
height 14 1⁄5 in.; width 15 1⁄3 in.; depth 8 5⁄8 in.; 36 cm; 39 cm; 22 cm.
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Paire d'appliques en bronze doré d'époque Régence, vers 1715, attribuées à l'atelier d'André-Charles Boulle
height 14 1⁄5 in.; width 15 1⁄3 in.; depth 8 5⁄8 in.; 36 cm; 39 cm; 22 cm.
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Christie's Paris, The Exceptional Sale, 4 November 2015, lot 505.
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Christie's Paris, The Exceptional Sale, 4 novembre 2015, lot 505.
André-Charles Boulle, maître in 1666 and Ebéniste, Ciseleur, Doreur et Sculpteur du Roi in 1672.
This model can be compared to several of Boulle's drawings illustrated in "Nouveaux desseins de meubles et ouvrages de bronze et de marqueterie inventés et gravés par André-Charles Boulle" by Mariette probably published around 1715 and illustrated in J.N. Ronfort, André-Charles Boulle, 1642-1732, Un Nouveau style pour l’Europe, Francfort, 2009, p. 363. These plates are unique in the history of French decorative arts as no ébéniste before Boulle ever published such a corpus. Around the cartouche of the first plate, Boulle illustrated his tools : drawing and ébénisterie tools and chisel for the bronze. The plate 8 shows some studies for wall lights with many similarities shared with our pair. One of these models has been created by Boulle and is now kept at the Louvre Museum, inv. OA 10516 (ill. D. Alcouffe et al., Les Bronzes d'Ameublement au Louvre, 2004, n. 9, pp. 38-39). Other examples include a pair sold at Sotheby's, New York, 13 April 1991, lot 49 and another pair sold in Paris, Montaigne, 29 November 1992, lot 39.