A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, BOIS SATINÉ AND BOIS DE BOUT MARQUETRY TABLE À ÉCRIRE BY BERNARD II VAN RISENBURGH ('BVRB'), CIRCA 1745-1750 The waved rectangular top with spring-loaded hinged reading stand, with floral bois de bout marquetry and amaranth C-scrolls, with an elaborately engraved ormolu border, above a shaped writing slide lined with later red velvet with engraved ormolu border, over three frieze drawers, with a shaped apron between, with rocaille and flower-head mounted angles, the sides with conforming decoration to the front, raised on cabriole legs with scrolling-cast sabots, the underside inscribed in red ink 1190R and with remnants of paper label printed with a duke's coronet above an M and a V and a further ducal crown, stamped three times, BVRB and twice JME to underside 29 ¼ in. (74.5 cm.) high, 37 in. (94 cm.) wide, 20 ½ in. (52 cm.) deep Provenance (Possibly) Casmir de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart et Vivonne (1787-1885). Baron Gustave de Rothschild (1829-1911), possibly in 23 avenue de Marigny, Paris or châteaux de Laversine, near Chantilly. Acquired from Kraemer, Paris at the Biennale, Paris.
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, BOIS SATINÉ AND BOIS DE BOUT MARQUETRY TABLE À ÉCRIRE BY BERNARD II VAN RISENBURGH ('BVRB'), CIRCA 1745-1750 The waved rectangular top with spring-loaded hinged reading stand, with floral bois de bout marquetry and amaranth C-scrolls, with an elaborately engraved ormolu border, above a shaped writing slide lined with later red velvet with engraved ormolu border, over three frieze drawers, with a shaped apron between, with rocaille and flower-head mounted angles, the sides with conforming decoration to the front, raised on cabriole legs with scrolling-cast sabots, the underside inscribed in red ink 1190R and with remnants of paper label printed with a duke's coronet above an M and a V and a further ducal crown, stamped three times, BVRB and twice JME to underside 29 ¼ in. (74.5 cm.) high, 37 in. (94 cm.) wide, 20 ½ in. (52 cm.) deep Provenance (Possibly) Casmir de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart et Vivonne (1787-1885). Baron Gustave de Rothschild (1829-1911), possibly in 23 avenue de Marigny, Paris or châteaux de Laversine, near Chantilly. Acquired from Kraemer, Paris at the Biennale, Paris.
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