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拍品專文
Jacques Jean-Baptiste Tilliard, known as Jean-Baptiste II Tilliard, maître in 1752.
The architectural form of this suite illustrates the stylistic progression of the Tilliard dynasty from the sinuous, sculpted lines of the Rococo to the Classical lines and ornament of the Louis XVI era. Under the direction of Jean-Baptiste II Tilliard (1723-1797), who assumed both his father’s stamp and the title of maître menuisier du Garde-Meuble du Roi, Tilliard continued to supply furniture to the Royal family. Those commissions included a suite of six fauteuils, a canapé, two bergères and a firescreen for the marchand-mercier François-Charles Darnault in 1784 which went to the apartment of the King of Sweden at Versailles (P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 840).
The present set of four fauteuils and the following six chaises are part of a larger suite of which several pieces are known. A sofa and four armchairs are in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California (Decorative Arts, A Handbook of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1986, p. 46, plates 101a and 101b); another pair of marquises sold Sotheby's, London, 24 June 1988, lot 36; a firescreen from the Collection of the Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, sold Sotheby's, London, 18 May 1977, lot 41; and a four-leaf screen is in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, catalogue no. 136.
The architectural form of this suite illustrates the stylistic progression of the Tilliard dynasty from the sinuous, sculpted lines of the Rococo to the Classical lines and ornament of the Louis XVI era. Under the direction of Jean-Baptiste II Tilliard (1723-1797), who assumed both his father’s stamp and the title of maître menuisier du Garde-Meuble du Roi, Tilliard continued to supply furniture to the Royal family. Those commissions included a suite of six fauteuils, a canapé, two bergères and a firescreen for the marchand-mercier François-Charles Darnault in 1784 which went to the apartment of the King of Sweden at Versailles (P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 840).
The present set of four fauteuils and the following six chaises are part of a larger suite of which several pieces are known. A sofa and four armchairs are in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, California (Decorative Arts, A Handbook of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, 1986, p. 46, plates 101a and 101b); another pair of marquises sold Sotheby's, London, 24 June 1988, lot 36; a firescreen from the Collection of the Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, sold Sotheby's, London, 18 May 1977, lot 41; and a four-leaf screen is in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, catalogue no. 136.