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A Louis XV ormolu-mounted tulipwood and purplewood serpentine table en chiffonnièreMade by C.Thibault, mid-18th century image 1

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Lot 94^*,TP

A Louis XV ormolu-mounted tulipwood and purplewood serpentine table en chiffonnière
Made by C.Thibault, mid-18th century

Cornelis Paulus van Pauwvliet: An Important Dutch Collection

21 November 2023, 13:00 GMT

London, New Bond Street

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A Louis XV ormolu-mounted tulipwood and purplewood serpentine table en chiffonnière

Made by C.Thibault, mid-18th century
The serpentine top with inlaid shaped encadrement above a leather-lined writing slide and two drawers inlaid sans traverse with a central scrolling cartouche motif, with a encrier fitted drawer to the side, on slender cabriole legs united by a quarter-veneered under-tier, stamped on the writing slide C.THIBAULT, 39.5cm wide x 30cm deep x 70cm high, (15.5in wide x 11.5in deep x 27.5in high)

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Provenance
Collection of the Comte Francois de Salverte;
Jean-Marie Rossi, Aveline, Paris, 2000.

Literature
Comte Francois de Salverte, Les Ebénistes du XVIIIe Siècle, 1985, pl. LXXXVI, ill. no. 2.

C.Thibault, maître ébéniste in 1729.

Surprisingly very little is known about the Parisian ébéniste C.Thibault (established rue du Grenier-sur-l'Eau) who, according to the Comte de Salverte, would have delivered in 1732 to Queen Marie Leczinska some marquetry furniture for her apartments at Versailles. Thibault is known to have produced mainly Régence commodes in the form called à tombeau as well as some smaller Louis XV veneered and lacquer furniture. Interestingly, the sculptor Thibault, who could have been the same person, is recorded as having lived in Versailles at the end of Louis XIV's reign.

This model of chiffonnière is also reminiscent of the oeuvre of the celebrated ébéniste Pierre Macret (ébéniste suivant la Cour from 1756). Macret is known to have favoured similar veneered inlays consisting of the same type of scrolling cartouche encadrements motifs, as visible on a striking Louis XV commode from the Collection of Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza, sold Christie's, London, The Collector Sale, 13 November 2019, lot 111.

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