Small screen with four leaves in rosewood... - Lot 140 - Coutau-Bégarie

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Small screen with four leaves in rosewood... - Lot 140 - Coutau-Bégarie
Small screen with four leaves in rosewood called "à la chinoise"; with openwork decoration at the bottom of geometric motifs interlaced. Louis XVI period, circa 1775. Attributed to Roger Vandercruse known as RVLC (1728-1799), cabinetmaker received master in 1755. Upholstered in red silk with vases decorated with flowers and arabesques on one side and plain green silk on the other. A leaf : H. : 97 - L. : 52,5 cm In November 1768, Poirier delivers to Madame du Barry a screen of this type described as follows: a screen with slides in solid wood cut to day, the frames and lined with beautiful paper of the Indies with magots ... 192 l (see Wildenstein in Gazette des Beaux Arts 1862, vol. II, p. 365-377). At the death of Louis XV, it was moved from Versailles to Louveciennes where it is described in rosewood (a three feet high rosewood screen lined in China paper).A similar screen, with five leaves, with geometrical openwork motifs at the bottom (circles and lozenges), attributed to Jean-François Leleu was sold in Paris, Hôtel Drouot, on June 15, 1985, lot 78; another screen of identical shape, also with four leaves and with the mark of the Château de Chanteloup, was sold in Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Piasa study, on March 26, 1999, lot 64. A screen stamped by Canabas is kept in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Lyon; it is illustrated in P. Verlet, Les meubles français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1982, fig. 33. Provenance: Sotheby's sale, Monaco, June 20, 1992, lot 657.Christies sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, June 18, 1999, lot 125.Christies sale, London, April 10, 2002, lot 249.An identical screen, formerly in the collection of Serge Roche, is illustrated in Le meuble léger en France by G.jeanneau and P.Devinoy, Paris, 1952, page 176. Another similar screen was in the former Fabius collection sold at Soytheby's in Paris on October 26, 2011, lot 12.
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