87. Emmanuel Alfred BEURDELEY (called Alfred... - Lot 87 - Farrando

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87. Emmanuel Alfred BEURDELEY (called Alfred... - Lot 87 - Farrando
87. Emmanuel Alfred BEURDELEY (called Alfred II) Small side table with two secret drawers in the waist, operated by a concealed pusher and resting on four arched legs. The top is decorated in the center with a takamaki-e and hiramaki-e lacquer panel depicting grasshoppers carrying an openwork ball on a stretcher. The panel is underlined by a frieze of burgau, the fields decorated with gold on a black background of a trellis of flowers and bamboo. In the belt, panels present butterflies in flight. Ornamentation in chiseled and gilded bronze such as molding, acanthus leaf and flower falls, frame moldings and sabots. Stamped A. BEURDELEY A PARIS. Louis XV style, late 19th century. Japan, Edo period (1603-1868) (18th century) for the lacquer panel. (Small chips, some gold wear). H : 71 cm - W : 86 cm - D : 40 cm. The table we present is the one reproduced in L'Ameublement d'art français 1850-1900, Camille Mestdagh, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2010, page 247 (fig. 288 and 289). Beurdeley is inspired by a table attributed to BVRB that belonged to Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild (1836-1905) with an identical structure, decorated with Japanese lacquer panels on the top and highlighted with acanthus leaf and flower falls of the same model. Beurdeley nevertheless introduced some variants with secret drawers in the belt, but abandoning the reading light present on the top of the BVRB table (Christie's Paris, 6 November 2014, lot 251). The attribution to BVRB of the table auctioned at Christie's is based on that delivered by the merchant Hébert on April 6, 1746 in Versailles, for the Dauphine Marie-Thérèse-Raphaëlle of Spain (Châteaux of Versailles and Trianon - inv. V06057). As Christopher Payne points out (see Bibliography), the piece of furniture now in Versailles had previously been acquired by Isaac de Camondo in the sale of the collection of Baron Leopold Double in 1881. Henry Dasson made an identical copy of this piece of furniture (except for the bronze falls which differ), dated 1882. It was only in 1894, during one of the auctions of the Dasson house stock, dedicated to the models, that some of his colleagues were able to obtain the bronze models. Nevertheless, it is not impossible that Beurdeley noticed the BVRB table at the home of Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild, and that he subsequently drew inspiration from it to create the table we are presenting. Indeed, Baron and Baroness Nathaniel Anselme were among his illustrious clients. Bibliography : PAYNE, Christopher, Paris, the quintessence of furniture in the 19th century, Editions Monelle Hayot, 2018.
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