'LASALLE' A BURL WALNUT AND IVORY COMMODE, CIRCA 1925

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EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN (1879-1933)
'Lasalle' A Burl Walnut and Ivory Commode, circa 1925
with bronze hardware, the doors flanking the central drawers opening to reveal four small mahogany veneered drawers
30½ in. (102.9 cm.) high, 78 in. (198.1 cm.) wide, 24 in. (61 cm.) deep
branded Ruhlmann/France, with ivory plaque inscribed Made in France for B. Altman & Co. New York

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 10/11 June 1993, lot 500.

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Lot Essay

cf. M. Dufrene, Exposition Internationale 1925: ensembles mobiliers, Paris, circa 1925, second series, pl. 3.
L. Deshairs, L'Hôtel du Collectionneur, Paris, 1926 for another commode of this model.
P. Kjellberg, Art Deco: Les Maîtres du Mobiliers, Paris, 1981, for another commode of this model illustrated on the cover.
F. Camard, Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann Master of Art Deco, Paris, 1983, p. 276 for an identical model exhibitied at the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, Paris, Hôtel du Collectionneur, 1925, p. 177 for a gouache of Baronne Henri de Rothschild's bedroom for which Ruhlmann proposed the Lasalle model.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Notable Acquisitions 1984-1985, p. 60 for a commode of this model in macassar ebony.
E. Bréon, R. Pepall, Ruhlmann Genius of Art Deco, exhibition catalogue, Musée des Années 30, Paris, 2004, p. 50 for a view in the bedroom of the Hôtel du Collectionneur, p. 138 for another cabinet of this model at an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1926, pp. 192-1993 for a commode of this model in macassar ebony in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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