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11297 A REMARKABLE BOIS DE FER VENEERED SINGLE DOOR CABINET

Offered by: Carlton Hobbs, LLC

Description
11297 A REMARKABLE BOIS DE FER VENEERED SINGLE DOOR CABINET WITH APPLIED BRONZED AND GILTWOOD DECORATION French. Nineteenth Century. Measurements: Height: 103 1/8″ (262 cm) Width: 50 3/8″(128 cm) Depth: 22 1/2″ (57 cm)

Of mahogany veneer and sculpted ironwood bas relief. The door with applied decoration of a neoclassical torchère surmounted by an oil lamp of a female figure reading, with a border of ivy leaves. The frieze composed of alternating palmettes and anthemions issuing star motifs below a molded ebonized cornice with lower egg and dart border. The whole raised on a square plinth. Minor veneer repairs. Backboard possibly old replacement or restored.

Provenance:
Collection of Gustave Duval.
Collection of Ferdinand Serres, Château de Grand-Vaux, Savigny sur Seine.
Sold as part of the Collections Empire du Château de Grand-Vaux, June 22-23 1935, Lot 337 (illustrated).

Illustrated:
Marmottan, Paul. Le Style Empire: Architecture et décors d’intérieurs, Volume 3, 1930. Plate 24.

This remarkable cabinet, with its most unusual bold and exquisite carved decoration, formerly belonged to the Château de Grand-Vaux, in the village of Savigny-sur-Orge, about twelve miles outside of Paris. The château changed hands several times from its construction in the seventeenth century, and after World War I was acquired by the industrialist and connoisseur Ferdinand Serres, who essentially transformed its interiors into a museum of Empire furnishings and decorative arts. Most of the house’s original furnishings had been dispersed, and Mr. Serres supplemented these gaps with his purchase of the complete collection of a Monsieur Gustave Duval. The cabinet is pictured in situ in the Grand Salon of Duval’s Parisian residence in Le Style Empire, Volume 3, by Paul Marmottan and Jules-Félix Vacquier (1925).

Research report available on request.

More Information

Period:	19th Century
Condition:	Good.
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Incollect Reference #:	721154

Dimensions

W.	50 in;	H.	103.25 in;	D.	22.5 in;
W.	127 cm;	H.	262.26 cm;	D.	57.15 cm;

Message from Seller:

Carlton Hobbs specializes in the acquisition, conservation, and research of 17th, 18th and 19th century British and Continental furniture and works of art, with a focus on pieces of exceptional merit, including specially commissioned items with royal or aristocratic provenance and pieces designed by architects.