Lot 113

113

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY BUREAU DE PENTE

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF BARONESS CARMEN THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA (LOTS 57 & 109-127)

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY BUREAU DE PENTE

BY ADRIEN-FAIZELOT DELORME, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY BUREAU DE PENTE
BY ADRIEN-FAIZELOT DELORME, MID-18TH CENTURY
Veneered overall with lozenge parquetry, the slope with radiating lozenge parquetry, gilt-tooled green leather to the reverse, enclosing a fitted interior with bois-de-boût floral marquetry, three drawers and a well, on cabriole legs headed by foliate and rocaille clasps and terminating in conforming pierced sabots, stamped 'DELORME', inventory number painted in red '5/121' and paper label '121', largely remounted
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 25 in. (63.5 cm.) wide; 17 ½ in. (44.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Madame de Polès; Galerie George Petit, Paris, 22-24 June 1927, lot 254.
Arnold Seligmann, Paris.
With Galerie Schloss Rohoncz/Castel Gnola Schweiz.
Mrs. Henry Walters, Baltimore; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 20 April 1941, lot 1418.
Jacques Leon Stren; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 3-4 November 1950, lot 192.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 17 April 1964, lot 120.

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Lot Essay

Adrien Faizelot-Delorme, maître in 1748.
Adrien Faizelot Delorme belonged to a family of ébénistes, the son of François Delorme, and brother of Jean-Louis Delorme. Adrien was not only famous for his lacquer work, but he also had an excellent reputation for the quality of his marquetry which can be seen to good effect on many of his commodes. He established himself in the rue du Temple, both as an ébéniste and a marchand, and worked there mainly in the Louis XV style, until he disposed of his stock in 1783.
Similar scrolling foliate inlay appears on the interior of a vernis Martin bureau de dame by Adrien Delorme in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire (G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes, London, 1974, vol. I, pp. 278-281) while a bureau de dame by Pierre Garnier has the same fan-rayed parquetry on the fallfront (sold from the collection of the Viscomte de Selins, Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York 18 March 1939, lot 127). Closely related fan-rayed parquetry also appears on a bureau de dame by B.V.R.B., sold anonymously Christie's London, 1 July 1976, lot 123, and on another sold at Sotheby’s, Paris, 27 April 2017, lot 81.

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