Null Jean-François LELEU (1729 - 1807)
Mahogany and mahogany veneer sloping desk…

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Jean-François LELEU (1729 - 1807) Mahogany and mahogany veneer sloping desk. It opens with a flap revealing four drawers and two compartments; six drawers on the front, four of which are simulated, and four drawers on the sides. It stands on tapered legs terminating in castors. Brass handles on the sides. White marble top surrounded by an openwork gallery. Stamped by the master received in 1764. Louis XVI period H. 95 W. 120 D. 47 cm Provenance: Landreaux family, New Orleans. Bibliography: Kjelbberg, Mobilier français du XVIIIe siècle, 2002, page 563.

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Jean-François LELEU (1729 - 1807) Mahogany and mahogany veneer sloping desk. It opens with a flap revealing four drawers and two compartments; six drawers on the front, four of which are simulated, and four drawers on the sides. It stands on tapered legs terminating in castors. Brass handles on the sides. White marble top surrounded by an openwork gallery. Stamped by the master received in 1764. Louis XVI period H. 95 W. 120 D. 47 cm Provenance: Landreaux family, New Orleans. Bibliography: Kjelbberg, Mobilier français du XVIIIe siècle, 2002, page 563.

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LOUIS XVI PERIOD GUILLOTINE DESK Stamped by Jean François Leleu In molded and carved mahogany, with ormolu and chased bronze ornamentation, the front opening with two flaps, a drawer in the waistband and two leaves in the lower section, fluted uprights, resting on tapered legs, stamped "J.F.LELEU" on the back. H.: 202.5 cm (79¾ in.) w.: 101 cm (39½ in.) P.: 39 cm (15¼ in.) Jean-François Leleu, received master in 1764 Provenance : Galerie Michel Schmitt, Paris, in 1994. Comparative bibliography : L'Estampille n° 228, September 1989, pp. 66-75. A Louis XVI gilt-bronze mounted and mahogany secretaire à guillotine, stamped by Jean-François Leleu A comparable secrétaire à guillotine, also stamped by Jean François Leleu, is illustrated in L'Estampille n° 228, September 1989, pp.66-75: it was sold at Christie's Monaco, June 19, 1988, lot 133.

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MAGNIFICENT LOUIS XVI COMMODE, ESTAMPILLEE by jean-François LELEU (1729-1807) Louis XVI period chest of drawers in blond Cuban mahogany. Rectangular quadrangular form with tripartite front and central projection The rounded fluted uprights with internal recesses set back from the profile of the front and sides rest on a round fluted foot with dovetail mounting. It opens with three drawers, the 1st upper drawer modified with a tilting front that reveals interior drawers. The lower drawers are wider and have no crossbar. The entire design is underlined by sharp-edged moldings, giving this chest its personality. The whole piece is topped with Aleppo marble, whose molded, projecting contours match those of the tripartite front. With key H : 90 cm W : 126 cm D : 58 cm In its original condition, with mending in the top drawer Jean-François Leleu was an excellent cabinetmaker who apprenticed in Jean-François Oeben's workshop. His style represents late Louis XV and neoclassical Louis XVI, with more severe, monumental forms. These include structures with fluted pilasters at the corners, and friezes of ivy tracery. This commode is typical of Jean-François Leleu's work of the 1780s. It is probably in his mahogany work that Jean-François Leleu's genius for proportion and line is most apparent. He was an early adopter of mahogany, the fashion for which was launched in the 1760s, notably by Madame de Pompadour, who owned seventeen mahogany chests of drawers at the time of her death in 1764, and which became widespread in the 1770s.

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