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A Gilt-Bronze Mounted Marquetry Cabinet on Stand By Emmanuel-Alfred (dit Alfred II) Beurdeley
Of elliptical shape, this rare cabinet is designed to be viewed in the round. An exhibition piece, it illustrates the exceptional abilities in the art of ébénisterie for which Beurdeley was famed. The quality is evident from the marble top, with its stiff-leaf cut edge, to the marquetry door panel and the finely cast gilt-bronze mounts.
The elliptical vert maurin marble top has eared corners. The lip of the marble top is beautifully carved with stiff-leaf detailing. The frieze is ornamented with a gilt-bronze guilloche mount, filled with sunflowers and roses. The front has a female mask with ribbon-tied plats and festooned with laurel swags. The front door has a marquetry panel composed in various fruitwoods and dyed sycamore, emblematic of celebration and depicting a flower entwined amphora with wing caryatid handle; a tazza of fruit; three dice; a marotte; a mandolin and sheets of music. All are arranged beneath a drawn curtain. The interior is fitted with two shelves. The cabinet stand is fronted by a draw with oak-wreath escutcheon and cornered by massive ram's heads or têtes de belier, on tapering legs with hoof feet.
stamped 'A. BEURDELEY / A PARIS'. Incised 'BY' marks behind gilt-bronze mounts.
France, Circa 1878.
Exhibited:
Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1878.
Literature:
This cabinet is illustrated in ‘Album Beurdeley’ reproduced in Mestdagh, Camille & Lécoules, Pierre. L'Ameublement d'Art Français, 1850-1900, Les Editions de L'Amateur, (Paris), 2010; p. 152.
This cabinet was part of Beurdeley’s gold medal winning stand at the Paris Exposition universelle of 1878. It is recorded by Falize Fils that Beurdeley himself designed this piece ‘with ram's heads’. Émile Bergerat described it ‘a piece of furniture with ram's heads in the style of Delafosse […] I notice that Mr. Alfred Beurdeley is very moderate in the distribution of his bronze and his ciselure. The form never disappears under the ornament and the eye of the spectator is not tormented by superfluous garlands, bunches, and borders. The marquetry of the central amaranth wood panel is very harmonious in tone, it blends well into the whole, and its decorative motif seemed to me cheerful and spiritually imagined. The curved lines evoke the Louis XV style, but with Louis XVI style ornaments, all designed according to the imagination of the manufacturer, his personal vision of styles and not with the aim of imitation. You should know that Mr. Beurdeley does not copy old models as so many others do; but he creates in a given style’.
To the scholar of furniture history, it is interesting that although this cabinet is inspired by the neoclassicism of the Louis XVI period, in the 1870s it would have been considered as something entirely new. It is uniquely of its time. Today’s connoisseur must admire its rarity, the beautiful proportions and matchless quality of the construction, evident in the marquetry, choice of timbers and stunning gilt-bronze mounts.
A variation of this model, decorated with Japanese lacquer and with minor differences to the gilt-bronze mounting, sold at Sotheby’s in 2007.
- Creator:Emmanuel-Alfred Beurdeley (Cabinetmaker)
- Dimensions:Height: 68.12 in (173 cm)Width: 32.68 in (83 cm)Depth: 21.66 in (55 cm)
- Style:Louis XVI (In the Style Of)
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- Date of Manufacture:Circa 1878
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Brighton, GB
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