From 06.10 to 30.11 - Remise 25\% Stamped GENTY - Rosewood And Violet Chest Of Drawers - 18th century

From 06.10 to 30.11 - 25% discount - New price: 5850 €.

Chest of drawers with central recess of very high quality, opening to 5 drawers on 3 rows.
The fronts of the drawers are rosewood veneered with amaranth and boxwood fillets - Greek style and inset - and framed with violet wood friezes.
The rest of the front is in violet wood.
The uprights are rounded, with inlaid decoration simulating fluting, and terminate in curved feet.
The sides are decorated with satinwood filigree framed by a simple fillet of juxtaposed woods and framed with violet wood.
The drawers are in oak, as are the frame and back.
Side cores in softwood
The parquet floor is topped with a beautiful, thick, white-veined gray marble (3 cm).
Beautiful ornamentation of mercury-gilded bronzes - Pull rings on pilasters.
The bronzes, locks and marble are of the period.
Made in Paris to order

The restoration was carried out in conservation.
The varnish used was made by our cabinetmaker according to 18th-century recipes (Venetian white varnish, also known as Roubo varnish), which is a transparent and very solid varnish.
It was applied with a rag, using 18th-century techniques.

Stamped "D. GENTY" on the upper left crosspiece - with the Jurande mark (JME)
Period: Transition Louis XV-Louis XVI
Height 86.5 cm - Width 113.5 cm - Depth 57.5 cm

Denis GENTY
He was admitted to his master's degree on March 13, 1754.
He first set up shop in the Faubourg Saint Antoine, and is considered one of the neighborhood's leading cabinetmakers. A few years later, he moved his workshop to rue de l'Echelle-Saint-Honoré, under the sign "À la descente des Tuileries".
His customers were very wealthy, belonging to the highest aristocracy.
Other cabinetmakers such as Landrin, Dautriche, Hédouin and Macret supplied him with furniture, which he sold alongside his own production.

The furniture, signed by GENTY, is mostly in the Louis XV style, worked with great taste. A few pieces of Transitional and Louis XVI furniture also bear his stamp.

MUSEUM
Louis XV sloping desk in violet wood veneer - Musée des Arts Décoratifs - Lyon

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIème Siècle - Pierre Kjellberg - Les Editions de l'Amateur - 2002
Les ébénistes du XVIIIe siècle - Comte François de Salverte - Les éditions d'Art et d'Histoire - 1934
L'art et la manière des maîtres ébénistes français au XVIIIe siècle - Jean Nicolay - édition Pygmalion - 1976
 

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