POSSIBLY BY BERNARD II VAN RISENBURGH, CIRCA 1750

With its distinctive marquetry of flowers in bois de bout, this elegant table relates to the oeuvre of the celebrated maître Bernard II van Risenburgh, known as BVRB. He was one of the most celebrated ébénistes of his era, and after gaining his maitrise before 1730, BVRB established his own workshop independently of his father, where his work stood apart from that of his contemporaries with its innovative conception and construction. He is well-known for the exceptional quality of his mounts and the development of a particularly refined form of end-cut marquetry known as bois de bout marquetry, which is seen on this table. With its table en cas form, which in itself was a specialty of BVRB and distinctive to his oeuvre, the present lot is related to a number of tables stamped by or attributed to him: a similar table, formerly in the Wrightsman Collection and sold Sotheby's, New York, 3 May 1986, lot 127, see F. J. B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, New York, 1966, vol. I, pp. 264-265; a table sold Christie’s, London, 9 December 2004, lot 163; another one in the Jones Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum, see O. Brackett, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, London, 1922, n. 14 and pl. 6; a further one with an under tier, formerly also in the Wrightsman Collection and sold Sotheby's, London, 2 December 1983, lot 37, see F. J. B. Watson, op. cit., pp. 255-256; and a final table stamped both by BVRB and by the marchand-ébéniste Migeon, see P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 2002, p. 144.