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THOMAS HACHE (Toulouse, 1664 Grenoble, 1747)

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THOMAS HACHE (Toulouse, 1664 Grenoble, 1747)
Cabinetmaker of the Duc d'Orléans in 1721
COMMODE Grenoble, Louis XIV period, circa 1715
Fir tree frame, rosewood and walnut veneer and fillets, Bronze gilded with
Clef en Fer varnish, with a 2-shaped bit, characteristic of Grenoble, of H origin
. 87,5 cm, W. 134,6 cm, D. 70cm
Some restorations of use

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- Françoise Rouge
This chest of drawers will be reproduced in the second volume of the book Pierre et Françoise Rouge, Le génie des Hache, Éd. Faton 2005, to be published soon.
This chest of drawers is slightly curved at the front, with an overhang at the back. It opens with three rows of drawers and features a top and front in curly and filleted rosewood drawing geometric reserves, the sides in walnut veneer and the front uprights in console design. The front studs and the façade have copper flutes. An ingot mould, pull handles, lock entries, scraps and staples complete the chiseled and gilded bronze ornamentation.
The presence of the projection at the back, the light arch of the façade which leads to a wide rounding of the plateau are characteristic of Thomas Hache's style. The original shape of the front uprights adorned with an elegant bronze console, the scraps composed of a beautiful bust of a young man, the garland of lily of the valley echoing the garland ending with a palmette on the console edge and to which the palmettes of the spandrels on the façade respond, The mobile handles with falling horns of plenty and the lock entries "aux Sphinges", the cul-de-lampe with the mask of Ceres, as well as the interlacing foliage on the front legs are all decorative motifs recurring in Thomas Hache's work and which attest to the astonishing inventiveness of the man who was appointed guard and cabinetmaker to the Duke of Orleans in 1721.
A very similar model of the same quality is illustrated in the book Le génie des Axe (fig. 1). Compare also with two other chests of drawers presented in the same book (fig. 2 & 3).
The presence of copper flutes on the uprights and crosspieces of the façade refers to the ties that united Thomas Hache, Jacques-Philippe Carel and François Mondon, the latter two being brothers-in-law and Carel having worked as a journeyman in the workshop of the Grenoble cabinetmaker in 1712. Indeed, on several chests of drawers of these three masters, one observes the use of these copper flutes, an ornament rarely found in Parisian cabinetmaking (see pp. 40 and 268-270, ibid.).

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THOMAS HACHE (Toulouse, 1664 Grenoble, 1747)
Cabinetmaker of the Duc d'Orléans in 1721
COMMODE Grenoble, Louis XIV period, circa 1715
Fir tree frame, rosewood and walnut veneer and fillets, Bronze gilded with
Clef en Fer varnish, with a 2-shaped bit, characteristic of Grenoble, of H origin
. 87,5 cm, W. 134,6 cm, D. 70cm
Some restorations of use

Expert
- Françoise Rouge
This chest of drawers will be reproduced in the second volume of the book Pierre et Françoise Rouge, Le génie des Hache, Éd. Faton 2005, to be published soon.
This chest of drawers is slightly curved at the front, with an overhang at the back. It opens with three rows of drawers and features a top and front in curly and filleted rosewood drawing geometric reserves, the sides in walnut veneer and the front uprights in console design. The front studs and the façade have copper flutes. An ingot mould, pull handles, lock entries, scraps and staples complete the chiseled and gilded bronze ornamentation.
The presence of the projection at the back, the light arch of the façade which leads to a wide rounding of the plateau are characteristic of Thomas Hache's style. The original shape of the front uprights adorned with an elegant bronze console, the scraps composed of a beautiful bust of a young man, the garland of lily of the valley echoing the garland ending with a palmette on the console edge and to which the palmettes of the spandrels on the façade respond, The mobile handles with falling horns of plenty and the lock entries "aux Sphinges", the cul-de-lampe with the mask of Ceres, as well as the interlacing foliage on the front legs are all decorative motifs recurring in Thomas Hache's work and which attest to the astonishing inventiveness of the man who was appointed guard and cabinetmaker to the Duke of Orleans in 1721.
A very similar model of the same quality is illustrated in the book Le génie des Axe (fig. 1). Compare also with two other chests of drawers presented in the same book (fig. 2 & 3).
The presence of copper flutes on the uprights and crosspieces of the façade refers to the ties that united Thomas Hache, Jacques-Philippe Carel and François Mondon, the latter two being brothers-in-law and Carel having worked as a journeyman in the workshop of the Grenoble cabinetmaker in 1712. Indeed, on several chests of drawers of these three masters, one observes the use of these copper flutes, an ornament rarely found in Parisian cabinetmaking (see pp. 40 and 268-270, ibid.).

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