Pair of Gaines (Pedestals)

from the collection of Blondel de Gagny

Paris, Louis XIV period, circa 1710.
ANDRÉ-CHARLES BOULLE (1642-1732), CABINETMAKER, SCULPTOR AND CHISELLER TO THE KING FROM 1672 TO 1732

‘Boulle’ marquetry of loggerhead (Caouane) tortoiseshell, copper and pewter and blackened oak, ornamentation of chiselled and gilded bronze.

Total H.: 129 cm. ( 50 ¾ in.); L. 27 cm. ( 10 ½ in.) ; D. 17 cm. ( 7 in.)

Provenance:

Auction of Augustin Bondel de Gagny, 10^th December 1776, n° 967.

Auction of the Count du Luc, 22^nd December 1777, n° 43.

LeBœuf auction, 8^th April 1783, n° 211.

Probably Lamure auction, 19^thApril 1791, n° 209.

Probably Duclos-Dufresnoy auction, 18^th August 1795, n° 179.

Charles Stein auction, Paris, 10^th May 1886, n° 362 (height 121 cm.).

Collection of Boniface de Castellane (bought circa 1895-1898).

Louis Guiraud auction, Paris, M^e Ader, 10^th December 1971, n° 117.

Juan de Beistegui Collection, auction on 10^th September 2018, n° 60.

Exhibition: Louis XIV, Fastes et Décors, Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, May-October 1960, n° 151-152 (then property of Mme Louis Guiraud)

Literature: Emile Molinier, Histoire Générale des Arts Appliqués à l’Industrie du V^e à la fin du XVIII^e siècle, Paris, undated (1898), 6 vol.; vol. III: Le Mobilier au XVII^e et au XVIII^e siècle, p.73 (illustrated in engraved form; then collection of Count Boniface de Castellane).

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