A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze and jasperware mounted marquetry table 'tricoteuse', late 19th century

This elegant tricoteuse or vide poche was conceived in the Louis XVI style and embodies the meticulously crafted furniture and fine marquetry for which RVLC and Roger Vandercruse were renowned for in the late 18^th century. See for example a table stamped RVLC sold at Sotheby’s, New York, Property from the Collections of Lily & Edmond J. Safra, 18-21 October 2011, lot 994.

Interestingly, the present table with mounts to its frieze joins a group of two late 19^th century examples, including:

-a very similar example, a tricoteuse by Werner with green jasperware Wedgwood-style plaques illustrated in Christopher Payne, Paris Furniture: the luxury market of the 19^th century, 2018, p.548.

-one stamped by Beurdeley with mounted gilt-bronze and enamel roundels on the French market, and illustrated in Camille Mestdagh, L’Ameublement d’art français 1850-1900, Paris, 2010, p. 68.