Null *Based on a model by Bernard MOLITOR, mahogany and mahogany veneer tea tabl…

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*Based on a model by Bernard MOLITOR, mahogany and mahogany veneer tea table, the upper part topped with a marble top encircled by an openwork brass gallery decorated with keyhole motifs, resting on a tripod base with two crotch shelves, one of which opens through a door. Louis XVI style, 19th century. 81 x 47 x 36 cm. - (restorations and small accidents)

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*Based on a model by Bernard MOLITOR, mahogany and mahogany veneer tea table, the upper part topped with a marble top encircled by an openwork brass gallery decorated with keyhole motifs, resting on a tripod base with two crotch shelves, one of which opens through a door. Louis XVI style, 19th century. 81 x 47 x 36 cm. - (restorations and small accidents)

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Estim. 6 000 - 8 000 EUR

CONSULATE PERIOD PEDESTAL TABLE Attributed to Bernard Molitor In mahogany and mahogany veneer, top in Ardennes royal gray marble, the shaft in lacquered wood and partly gilded in imitation bronze, resting on blackened wooden claw feet terminating in casters; minor accidents. H. 79 cm (31 in.) D. 98 cm (38 ½ in.) Provenance: By family tradition, Comte François Marie de Bastard d'Estang (1783-1844). Comparative bibliography : U. Leben, Molitor Ebéniste de Louis XVI à Louis XVIII, Éditions d'Art Monelle Hayot, 1992, p. 165, fig. 114. An Consulat parcel-gilt, ebonised and mahogany gueridon, attributed to Bernard Molitor This type of circular monopod pedestal table, which had existed in Antiquity, reappeared in the aftermath of the French Revolution, in an attempt to imitate the simplicity of Antiquity. In particular, the superimposition of geometric motifs, such as the fleuron inscribed in a rhombus or the stylized palmette adorning the three sides of the shaft, were inspired by Pompeii. The unusual design of the shaft brings our example close to the "Table de Déjeûner" model (cf. fig. 1) from the collection by La Mésangère, Paris, 1802, pl. 49(1). A pedestal table of the same design as ours is attributed to Bernard Molitor (cf. fig. 2) by Professor Ulrich Leben in the monograph he dedicated to the work of this cabinetmaker(2) ; in particular, the carved reliefs on the central foot can be compared to the ornamentation on a Molitor-stamped daybed from the former Lefèvre collection(3). A pedestal table similar to ours sold at Christie's Paris on November 29, 2017, lot 149 (see fig. 3). Finally, we should mention the existence of a model with slight variations in the decoration of the shaft; it is preserved at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris (inv. 36218) and is illustrated in M.N. De Grandy, Le Mobilier Français Directoire Consulat et Empire, Massin, Paris, 1996, p. 64. According to family tradition, this pedestal table was part of the furniture of Count François Marie De Bastard d'Estang (1783-1844). The Count was an advisor to the Imperial Court of Paris in 1810, before becoming President of the Court of Lyon in 1815. In 1819, he was appointed Peer of France, and investigated the trial of Louvel, assassin of the Duc de Berry. (1) P.M. Kenny, F.F. Brettet and U. Leben, Honoré Lannuier, Cabinet Maker from Paris, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1998, p. 193, pl. 97. (2) U. Leben, Molitor Ébéniste de Louis XVI à Louis XVIII, Éditions d'Art Monelle Hayot, 1992, p. 165, fig. 114. (3) ibid. p. 204 fig. 156 A.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Circular mahogany table, the circular top in white marble with a gallery, resting on a belt decorated with palmettes and stars, supported by a shank base painted in a faux bronze patinated antique green with a triangular plinth inlaid with marble; (accidents and missing parts). Consulat period, in the Jacob frères style. H : 76 cm, D : 78 cm This type of base can be found as early as the end of the 18th century by cabinetmaker Bernard Molitor, and of course more widely by Jacob-Frères, right up to the early years of the 19th century.

Estim. 6 000 - 8 000 EUR

Rare middle bed with inverted headboards and wide molded "flanges", in solid mahogany, adorned on the sides and long sides with patinated and gilded bronze decoration of fleurons in quadrilaterals alternating with palmettes. The palmettes continue on the upper part of the detached spool feet, surmounted by pastilles and encircled by bronze moldings, finished with casters. Stamped B. Molitor. Directoire period (possible restoration of the foot ends) Headboard height: 103 cm W. : 223 cm - D. : 141 cm A cabinetmaker born in Luxembourg, MOLITOR (1755-1833) settled in Paris in the mid-1770s. After a difficult start, he received his master's degree in 1787 and remained active until 1819, weathering all the economic difficulties of these decades. His high-quality work is characterized by sobriety and harmonious proportions. He received a number of royal commissions, including a mahogany parquet floor for Marie-Antoinette's cabinet in Fontainebleau, and mainly supplied members of the French and foreign nobility: the Comte de Chartres, the Polignacs, the Marquis Lafayette, the Baron de Staël Holstein, ambassador of the King of Sweden, Count Fernand Nuñez, ambassador of the King of Spain, who in 1788 made purchases for the royal residences in Madrid... This bed is typical of Bernard Molitor's work in its quality of execution, with elegant, sober lines that reflect his desire to combine purity of material, simplicity of form and measured use of bronze. Bernard Molitor benefited from a detailed study by Ulrich Leben1 , who listed eleven resting beds, only two of which were stamped, but did not reserve a paragraph for the beds themselves, as they were rare, and to date only one other example is known, the shape of which resembles a paphosis, It is stamped2 and was sold in London - which Mr. Leben was kind enough to confirm to me. There is another bed3 that could have been attributed to Molitor, so close is the sculpted decoration to his daybeds, but this one is stamped Jacob Desmalter: its architecture and use of solid mahogany are very similar to the one on display today. The same can be said of the consoles and secretaries with flaps: could we speak of an "interaction" or "collaboration" between these two cabinetmakers? 1 Ulrich Leben, Molitor, Ebéniste de Louis XVI à Louis XVIII, London, 1992. 2 Christie's London, July 4, 2017, no. 42. 3 Vante Ader, Paris June 22, 2018, n°218.

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