Guillaume Kemp, Stamped Secretary Office from Louis XV Period Circa 1760

Guillaume Kemp, Secretary Office Stamped Louis XV Period Circa 1760

18th Century

Superb and Elegant Secretary Desk in Violet Wood Marquetry from the Louis XV Period, Opening with Four Drawers and a Flap Resting on Two Wrought Iron Pulls on the Front. This reveals a writing tablet covered with a green leather top gilded with a small iron, six small drawers, lockers, two secret drawers and a locker.

This Desk is Inlaid on All Sides with Butterfly Wings, and Rests on Four Arched Legs. Entrances to Locks and Clogs in Gilt and Chiseled Bronze. Has His Key.

Office Stamped JME, Hallmark of Jurandes and of the Famous and Renowned Master Cabinetmaker, GUILLAUME KEMP, Master on October 3, 1764.

GUILLAUME KEMP, carpenter-cabinetmaker. Paris. Master October 3, 1764. Of German origin.
In 1757, when he married the daughter of Brice Péridiez, this cabinetmaker from Bonn, Germany, had been working for some time in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. He remained there until the Revolution, in his workshop on rue de la Roquette. Its production essentially belongs to the Transition and Louis XVI styles. Although he sometimes uses sheet veneers, including mahogany, he mainly specializes in marquetry. Marquetry of regular geometric patterns - chevrons, rosettes, circles, grids - and more bouquets and baskets of flowers, trophies, architecture with statues and characters, often circumscribed in oval medallions. To Beneman, charged with creating a sumptuous desk for the cabinet of Louis XVI in Versailles, Kemp delivered in 1786 eight panels of colored wood marquetry representing flowers and fruits based on the cartoons of the painter Gérard Van Spaendonck. We find his stamp on Transition chests of drawers, with or without projection, Louis XVI chests of drawers, secretaries, corner cabinets, Transition or Louis XVI roll-top desks, all of classic lines but well proportioned and carefully manufactured. Let us cite a Transition chest of drawers without projection inlaid with a basket of flowers in a medallion on a quatrefoil trellis background, sold in Monaco on June 14, 1981 (former collection of Mentmore Castle). (Cabinetmaker and 18th century furniture)

Parisian Furniture of High Quality of Execution, Worthy of This Excellent Master Cabinetmaker.

Work From the Louis XV Period, Around 1760, 18th Century.

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Dimensions:

Height: 96.5 cm

Width: 97.5 cm

Depth: 49.5 cm

Depth of flap open: 84 cm

Leg Passage Height: 66.5 cm

In good condition, to highlight the marks of time.

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Ref: UY0SL6A1RG