18th Jun, 2013 10:00

Fine Art

 
Lot 1406
 

Sold for £8,600


Lot details
A French rosewood and tulip wood Bureau Plat d'Epoque Louis XV, c.1745, by Demoulin, stamped underside left, the rectangular top with inset tooled leather surface within ormolu moulded border applied leaf pattern corners, with three short and three false drawers to the frieze fitted robust and impressive ormolu handles with foliate escutcheons, the drawers decorated with crossbanding, flanked by applied acanthus leaf motifs, raised on scrolling tapering legs with further acanthus leaf scrolling mounts terminating in ball and leaf mounted sabots, 25 1/2 x 52 x 29in. high, Jean Demoulin (1715-1798) trained in Dijon working in Paris by 1749, returning to Dijon in 1780. PROVENANCE Purchased by the present vendor's family from Hallidays Antiques Limited, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, in July 2006. Provenance as supplied by them as follows: ''This bureau plat was originally commissioned by the Prince du Conde, Governor of Burgundy and cousin of the King. He lived in the Chateau of Chantilly. The master cabinet maker, Demoulin, who made this piece and whose name is stamped on the underside, was the official cabinet maker to the Prince. In 1800, during the directoire period, this desk was bought at a public auction by Count Worontzow, the richest man in all of the Russias. He was Ambassador to the State of Venice and he bought the desk as a wedding gift for his daughter Catherine who married the Earl of Pembroke. Worontzow later became Ambassador to the Court of St. James and settled in London where he died in 1833. The Pembroke's retained this piece until 1989, since it has been in private residence and thence via Hallidays and descent to the present vendor.
 

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