A pair of Louis XIV style marquetry pedestals, circa 1870, after a model by André-Charles Boulle
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October 13, 06:27 PM GMT
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30,000 - 50,000 EUR
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A pair of Louis XIV style marquetry pedestals, circa 1870,&nb�🔯�sp;after a model by André-Charles Boulle
ebony, tortoiseshell, copper, pewter, gilt-bronze, tinted horn; the stepped top inlaid with copper and tortoiseshell presenting a décor of foliage, the corners embellished with gilt-bronze acanthus leaves, the concave sides decorated with acanthus leaves interlaced with sunflowers, the base with a large band of gadrooning and stylised flowerets, the upper part displaying a marquetry of pewter on a blue horn ground decorated with foliated scrollwork and palmette surrounded by a gilt-bronze border, flanked on either side by volutes surmounting marquetry panels with foliate scrollwork motifs, on a quadrangular stepped baꦦse with a gilt-bronze gadroon frieze accentuated by stylised rosettes
height 5🀅0 in.; width 20⅞in.; depth 14½in.; 127 cm; 53 cm; ꦍ37 cm.
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Paire de piédestaux en marqueterie d'écaille, cu🙈ivre, étain, corne bovine teintée, bronze doré et ébène, de style Louis XIV, vers 1870, d🐼'après un modèle d'André-Charles Boulle
height 50 in.; width 20⅞in𝕴.; dept𒉰h 14½in.; 127 cm; 53 cm; 37 cm.
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Private Collection, acquired 1996.
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Collection privée, acquis en 1996.
This model of pedestal à tablier was designed by André-Charles Boulle, then engraved and published in Paris by Mariette (Aux Colonnes d'Hercule, Rue St-Jacques) shortly after 1707 in an album of plates entitled Nouveaux dessins de meubles et ouvrages de bronzes et de marqueterie inventés et gravé par André-Charles Boulle ("new designs for furniture, bronzes and marquetry conceived and engr꧑aved by André-Charles" Boulle"). The term "new" here implies that the pedestals, portrayed onℱ the engravings as vase supports, had been designed recently. Prestigious, previous examples in Boulle's work concern commissions from the Grand Dauphin in the 1680s.
