An elegant Parisian Louis XVI style library cabinet - image-1

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An elegant Parisian Louis XVI style library cabinet

Auction 1182 - overview Cologne
15.07.2021, 11:00 - The Exceptional Bernard De Leye Collection
Estimate: 15.000 € - 20.000 €
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An elegant Parisian Louis XVI style library cabinet

Three-doored library cabinet with rounded edges on four feet. Flanked on either side by fluted columns. With two drawers above the doors and two other convex doors above at the angles beneath shelves. With opulent ormolu appliqués, mouldings and pierced galleries surrounding the shelves. H133, W 221, D 38 cm.
Paris, second half 19th century.

This imposing piece uses the same architectural design as the spectacular "Commode à encoignures" by Martin Carlin, which he produced in around 1775 - 80 for the French royal household and which is now found in the Louvre (inv. no. OA 5472). In the 19th century, these kinds of three-door chests of drawers with rounded sides, decorated with magnificent bronzes, inspired furniture makers such as Henry Dasson (1825 - 1896) and Gervais Maximilien Eugène Durand (1839 - 1920).

Literature

The chest of drawers by Martin Carlin in the Louvre published in Alcouffe/ Dion-Tenenbaum/ Lefébure, Furniture Collection in the Louvre, vol. 1, Dijon 1993, no. 74. Cf. The piece by Gervais Durand in Mestdagh, L'Ameublement d'Art Français, 1850-1900, Paris 2010, p. 222, illus. 261, and p. 284 ff.