Maison Vervelle Audot Successeur
Une armoire secrète montée en bronze doré avec un dessus en marbre.
£18,000
A Gilt-Bronze Mounted Secretaire Cabinet With A Marble Top by Maison Vervelle Audot Successeur. This fine cabinet has a rectangular white marble top...
Dimensions
Hauteur : 133 cm (53 in)Width: 72 cm (29 in)
Depth: 36 cm (15 in)
Description
A Gilt-Bronze Mounted Secretaire Cabinet With A Marble Top by Maison Vervelle Audot Successeur.
This fine cabinet has a rectangular white marble top above an angular frieze and eight drawers. Each drawer front has fine quarter sawn veneer and boxwood stringing and is centred by elaborate gilt-bronze pieced foliate escutcheons. The drawer fronts to the second, third and fourth drawers are false and open to reveal a fall front, with a leather writing surface and a fitted interior with a framed recess, two short drawers and a long drawer. The cabinet has chamfered uprights headed by finely cast gilt-bronze foliate volutes and is raised on a plinth base with a shaped apron.
Date
Circa 1860
Origine
France
Moyen
Gilt-Bronze Mounted
Signature
Signed to the lockplate: 'Mon Vervelle Audot succ Paris / 1 rue Nve Montmorency Feydeau'.
The firm of Maison Vervelle was established in 1804 by Jean-Francois Vervelle and exhibited at the 1827 and 1844 Expositions and also at the 1855 Paris Exposition Universelle.
They published the Bulletin du magasin des nouveautés in 1830.
In 1856 the company was taken over by Henry Audot and by 1866 was known as H. Audot, Dallongeville, working at 1 rue Neuve-Montmorency in Paris.
The firm was particularly renowned for making small luxury items and d’ébénisterie de go√ªt et de fantasie.
Bibliography:
Ledoux-Lebard, Denise. Les ébénistes du XIXe siècle 1795-1889 leurs ≈ìuvres et leurs marques, Les Editions de l’Amateur, (Paris), 1965; p.33-34.