A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND KINGWOOD BOIS DE BOUT MARQUETRY ENCOIGNURES BY JOSEPH BAUMHAUER CALLED 'JOSEPH,' CIRCA 1750-1755 Each with shaped breche d'alep marble top above a pair of doors richly mounted with a scrolled cartouche entwined with flowers and leaves framing two marquetry foliate sprays, between keeled angles headed by acanthus, scroll and oak leaf mounts and with foliate sabots , the ormolu struck with 'C' couronné poinçon , one with white chalk inscription ' 8178 ' to back, one with ink '1' , the other with ink ' 2 ' to underside of marble top, stamped JOSEPH twice to top at corners 33 ¾ in. (85.7 cm.) high, 36 in. (91.4 cm.) wide, 25 ½ in. (65 cm.) deep Provenance Jules Porgès, Paris; his sale 17 June 1924 (to Jonas). Arthur Veil-Picard, Paris, acquired from the above. Confiscated by the Devisenschutzkommando after May 1940 and transferred to the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (Inv. No. WP 2017/18), 21 April 1942. Recovered from Altaussee, Austria, and repatriated to France, 17 October 1945. Restituted to the Veil-Picard Collection, 16 April 1946.
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND KINGWOOD BOIS DE BOUT MARQUETRY ENCOIGNURES BY JOSEPH BAUMHAUER CALLED 'JOSEPH,' CIRCA 1750-1755 Each with shaped breche d'alep marble top above a pair of doors richly mounted with a scrolled cartouche entwined with flowers and leaves framing two marquetry foliate sprays, between keeled angles headed by acanthus, scroll and oak leaf mounts and with foliate sabots , the ormolu struck with 'C' couronné poinçon , one with white chalk inscription ' 8178 ' to back, one with ink '1' , the other with ink ' 2 ' to underside of marble top, stamped JOSEPH twice to top at corners 33 ¾ in. (85.7 cm.) high, 36 in. (91.4 cm.) wide, 25 ½ in. (65 cm.) deep Provenance Jules Porgès, Paris; his sale 17 June 1924 (to Jonas). Arthur Veil-Picard, Paris, acquired from the above. Confiscated by the Devisenschutzkommando after May 1940 and transferred to the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (Inv. No. WP 2017/18), 21 April 1942. Recovered from Altaussee, Austria, and repatriated to France, 17 October 1945. Restituted to the Veil-Picard Collection, 16 April 1946.
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