Regency Time Tumbler Offered for Sale at Christie's
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Regency Time Tumbler will be featured at Christie’s upcoming sale, titled “The Collector: The French Taste” that will be held on April 18, 2019, in Paris. The pre-auction estimate of this tumbler is 40,000 EUR - 60,000 EUR, and it will be presented in lRegency Time Tumbler Offered for Sale at Christie's
Regency Time Tumbler will be featured at Christie’s upcoming sale, titled “The Collector: The French Taste” that will be held on April 18, 2019, in Paris. The pre-auction estimate of this tumbler is 40,000 EUR - 60,000 EUR, and it will be presented in lot 56 at the auction. It is attributed to Etienne Doirat. “Architectural and elegant, richly enhanced with gilded bronze, this dresser is part of the homogeneous corpus of works by Etienne Doirat, one of the most talented cabinet-makers during the Regency era. Etienne Doirat (around 1670 - 1732) was destined to embrace a career as a craftsman because of his family origins whose oldest members settled at the end of the 16th century in Faubourg Saint-Antoine. The exact date on which he was received as a master is unknown, but his marriage contract of 1704 defined him as an «ebony carpenter.» Etienne Doirat is no exception to the family tradition since he will always remain in the suburbs but will change address several times: in 1704 he is installed at Grande-Rue-du-Faubourg, in 1711 it is rue Sainte Marguerite, in 1720 he returns Grande-Rue-du-Faubourg but at La Croix Rouge," in 1726 he seems to have found his final residence Cour de la Contrescarpe des Fosses de la Bastille,” states the auction house. The present art piece is made in violet wood veneer, chiseled bronze ornamentation, gray marble top, the facade decorated with foliated scrolls and facing sphinges opening with five drawers on three rows. The uprights are adorned with leafy staple falls and the sides are centered on a leafy rosette underlined with cornucopia. The feet end with hooves in roll and stamped E DOIRAT and Ph. PERRIN (not listed) on the four amounts. Christie’s further comments, “One of the specifications of Etienne Doirat is to have, unlike his peers like Boulle or Cressent, affixed his stamp on furniture leaving his studio. Indeed, the statutes of the corporation of 1743 concerning the obligation to stamp are only a reminder of the somewhat forgotten rule of the statutes of December 6, 1637. However, as stated in the study of Jean-Dominique Augarde, Doirat would finally stamp that little furniture given the volume produced that is imagined accordingly pro-rata 30 years of career; he would, therefore, have stamped his furniture only on the last years corresponding to the most accomplished furniture.” https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more