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A fine Louis XV ormolu mounted bois satiné, kingwood, fruitwood and marquetry bombé commodeMade by Nicolas Berthelmi, mid-18th century image 1

A fine Louis XV ormolu mounted bois satiné, kingwood, fruitwood and marquetry bombé commodeMade by Nicolas Berthelmi, mid-18th century image 2

A fine Louis XV ormolu mounted bois satiné, kingwood, fruitwood and marquetry bombé commodeMade by Nicolas Berthelmi, mid-18th century image 3

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A fine Louis XV ormolu mounted bois satiné, kingwood, fruitwood and marquetry bombé commode
Made by Nicolas Berthelmi, mid-18th century

Cornelis Paulus van Pauwvliet: An Important Dutch Collection

21 November 2023, 13:00 GMT

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A fine Louis XV ormolu mounted bois satiné, kingwood, fruitwood and marquetry bombé commode

Made by Nicolas Berthelmi, mid-18th century
The brèche d'Alep moulded marble top above two drawers sans traverse inlaid with flowering branches and a central bird enclosed by rocaille cast ormolu mounts on out-swept legs, stamped four times N. BERTHELMI, 130cm wide x 63cm deep x 87.5cm high, (51in wide x 24.5in deep x 34in high)

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Provenance
Etude Tajan, George V, Paris, Objets d'Art et de Très Bel Ameublement, 12 December 1995, lot 186.

Related Literature
Comte François de Salverte in Revue de l'Art, no. 299, 1928.
Comte François de Salverte, Les Ebénistes du XVIIIe Siècle, 1953, pp.20-21, plate VI.
P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1998, p.67 (illustrated).

Nicolas Berthelmi, maître ébéniste in 1735.

Very little is known of the talented ébéniste Nicolas Berthelmi except that he was established Grande Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine in Paris and that he was a keen marqueteur. Berthelmi usually included parrots and other exotic birds in the floral veneered decorative scheme of his elegant bombé commodes.

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