- 25\% until 30.11 - Stamped "B. Butte" - Table A Jeux Dite "Tric-trac" - Louis XVI

25% discount to be applied until 30.11 - new price: 5400

Beautiful "Tric-Trac" game table in rosewood, violetwood and other veneers.
The mobile top is :

on one side, the central part is inlaid with fern-like rosewood framed in fillet, with an oval butterfly motif. The outer parts are in cherry wood, butterfly inlaid with framing friezes.
on the other side, a card table with green woollen play mat.

The interior is adorned with an ivory and ebony tric trac game, blue-tinted hornbeam and natural hornbeam.

The table opens with 4 drawers.
It includes 2 sets of tokens (28 ivory (?) tokens and 30 stained wood tokens) and two leather tumblers.

The black-stained legs are veneered with hornbeam and filleted in green.
They are finished with four original gilded bronze sabots.

Oak frame,
Very good condition.

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

Stamped 2 times "B. BUTTE" with JME (poinçon de la Jurande) on the edge of 2 crosspieces.
Parisian work, Louis XVI period, circa 1780

Dimensions: 75 x 125 x 61 cm

Benoit BUTTE (known as Beauclair)
Cabinetmaker in Paris, born around 1720, died February 4, 1803.
He was awarded his Master's degree on June 3, 1767, while living on rue St. Nicolas.
He practiced there for some time before moving his workshop to the Faubourg St Germain, first rue Coquillère, then rue des Saints-Pères.
We find him in contact with several major merchants and with the chaser Desseule, who probably worked on the fittings for his furniture.

This craftsman was followed by others named Beauclair until the reign of Charles X.

The Comte de Salverte cites him for a wooden commode inlaid with vases and utensils.
 

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