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The shaped rectangular top with a brass partial gallery, veneered with a spray of flowers in a strapwork cartouche flanked by shaped panels of trellis, the frieze fitted at the front with a writing slide and at one short side with a drawer, a false drawer to the other side, veneered all around with trailing flowers, on ormolu-mounted cabriole legs, marked in white '440' to the underside, drawer underside and slide underside
29 in. (74 cm.) high, 2512 in. (65 cm.) wide, 1614 in. (41.5 cm.) deep
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Jean-Pierre Latz, appointed ébéniste privilégié du Roi in 1741.

German born Jean-Pierre Latz (circa 1691-1754) was an artisan privilégié du Roi working in the rue du Faubourg St. Antoine, arriving in Paris in 1719. While he never received his maîtrise, his style was characterized by its sculptural vitality, extremely realistic floral marquetry and distinctive bronze mounts, which he cast himself in direct contravention of Parisian Guild laws (see H. Hawley, ‘Jean-Pierre Latz, Cabinetmaker’, Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, September/October 1970, p. 207). In France in the eighteenth century, it was completely prohibited to exercise this double activity of bronzier and ébéniste; the guilds were highly regulated and kept strict watch over their respective spheres. This practice of casting his own mounts, in direct contravention of guild laws, allowed him to perfect his unique models and adapt them to specific pieces of furniture and retain their exclusive use. A raid on his workshop in 1749 by the bronziers revealed the presence of 2,288 models of ormolu mounts. However, subsequent to this raid, Latz no longer had exclusive use of some of his molds as the bronze-casters' guild had seized them and the mounts cast from them, and sold them in accordance with guild regulations.

Latz's style was likely fundamental to the development of the Rococo idiom in Potsdam and Berlin (Hawley, p. 210); and his notable patrons included the sovereigns Frederick II, King of Prussia, and August III, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, and the duc de Penthièvre. A number of pieces were also commissioned by Louise Elizabeth, Louis XV's eldest daughter, between 1748-1753.

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