A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND BOIS DE BOUT MARQUETRY JEWEL CABINET, BY BERNARD II VAN RISENBURGH, CIRCA 1750

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND BOIS DE BOUT MARQUETRY JEWEL CABINET
BY BERNARD II VAN RISENBURGH, CIRCA 1750
The rectangular case with bois de bout marquetry cartouches and a hinged lid opening to a later silk-lined niche, the fall front revealing a later tooled leather writing surface, drawers and a niche, the sides fitted with candlerests and fitted on a serpentine stand with a frieze drawer, the sides with carrying handles on cabriole legs mounted with chutes and sabots and joined by a medial shelf, stamped BVRB, stencilled BVRB and stamped JME four times to underside of drawer in addition to partial blue printed paper label inscribed Pa 51
39 ½ in. (100.5 cm.) high, 15 ½ in. (39.5 cm.) wide, 12 in. (30.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Paul Dutasta; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 3-4 June 1926, lot 148.
The Patiño Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 1 November 1986, lot 115.