Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume I : Chefs-d’oeuvre

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A pair of Louis XIV marquetry pedestals by André-Charles Boulle, delivered for the Grand Dauphin at Versailles in 1684

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October 11, 05:25 PM GMT

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A pair of Louis XIV marquetry pedestals by André-Charles Boulle, delivered for the Grand Dauphin at Versailles in 1684

brass, pewter, tortoiseshell, stained horn, gilt-bronze; each pedestal of tapering, square-sectioned form, raised on a slightly larger, attached plinth, the sides and front of the plinth cut on the lower edge with an ogee arch, the front spandrels of the arches set with panels of scrolling Boulle marquetry, and the lower edges of the arches resting on turned feet; at the top of the shaft the sides and front are set with a satyr mask in gilt bronze, an out-curving frieze section above is set with a trygliph mount in the centre of each side and the front, the Boulle sections of these of horn over blue colouring, while the corners are set with upright acanthus leaf mounts

height 51 in.; width 16¾in.; depth 15 in.; 129,5 cm; 42,5 cm; 38 cm.

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Paire de scabellons en marqueterie de laiton, étain, écaille de tortue, corne teintée et bronze doré, d'époque Louis XIV, par André-Charles Boulle, livrée en 1684 pour le Cabinet des Glaces du Grand Dauphin au château de Versailles

height 51 in.; width 16¾in.; depth 15 in.; 129,5 cm; 42,5 cm; 38 cm.

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From the set of nine pedestals delivered by André-Charles Boulle to the Grand Dauphin in 1684 for the Cabinet des Glaces, Château de Versailles;

Collection of Jean Bloch, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 21 May 1957, lot 76;

Marcel Bissey, Paris;

Collection S.E. Jorge Ortiz-Linarès and Graziella Patiño until 1980;

Collection Jaime Ortiz-Patino, Sotheby's New York, 20 May 1992, lot 54;

Private Collection, acquired in 1997.

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Parmi la série de neuf piédestaux livrés par André-Charles Boulle au Grand Dauphin en 1684 pour le Cabinet des Glaces, Château de Versailles;

Collection de Jean Bloch, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 21 mai 1957, lot 76;

Marcel Bissey, Paris;

Collection S.E. Jorge Ortiz-Linarès et Graziella Patiño jusqu'en 1980;

Collection Jaime Ortiz-Patino, vente Sotheby's New York, 20 mai 1992, lot 54;

Collection privée, acquis en 1997.

J-N. Ronfort, "André-Charles Boulle: Commandes Pour le Grand Dauphin à Versailles", in Dossier de L'Art, November 2005, p. 58, fig. 54.

J-N. Ronfort, André-Charles Boulle, un nouveau style pour l'Europe, cat. ex. Frankfurt, 2009, 5 a & b, p. 196-197

C. Demetrescu, Les ébénistes de la Couronne sous le règne de Louis XIV, Lausanne , 2021, p. 195

Visitors to Versailles: From Louis XIV to the French Revolution, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2018, nos. 118 a, b