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    • AN IMPRESSIVE FRENCH GILT BRONZE MOUNTED BRASS AND TORTOISESHELL INLAID EBONIZED BUREAU PLAT, BEFORT PERE MARK, 19TH C.
      Sep. 09, 2021

      AN IMPRESSIVE FRENCH GILT BRONZE MOUNTED BRASS AND TORTOISESHELL INLAID EBONIZED BUREAU PLAT, BEFORT PERE MARK, 19TH C.

      Est: €40,000 - €60,000

      H 80,5 - L 144,5 - D 69 cm Top with a leather writing surface and a glass for protection of the surface. Jean-Baptiste Befort (1783-1840), who was of Belgian origin but lived in Paris (Faubourg St. Honore), is renowned for having supplied furniture for the apartments of the Duc d'Orleans. He is the father of Mathieu Befort (1813-1880) known as Befort Jeune, who always stamped his work ‘Befort Jeune,' or had the reverse of his bronze mounts stamped BJ. Ref.: - The design of this impressive bureau plat is is based upon a series of celebrated bureaux plats produced circa 1715-20 in the workshop of the most celebrated French master ebeniste of the Louis XIV period, Andre-Charles Boulle (1642-1732), such as the Bureau du president de Machault. Comparable desks are in the Wallace Collection in London, the Getty Museum in California, the Frick Collection in New York, and the celebrated model commissioned for the Duc de Bourbon (link en link), now in the collection of the Château de Versailles (link). - A boulle coffre de marriage by Jean-Baptiste Befort, was sold at Christie's, London, 27 September 2007, lot 96 (link). - A quite similar bureau plat and attributed to Hippolyte Edme Pretot (1812-1855) or Mathieu Befort (1813-1880) was sold at Bonhams, London, 18 November 2015, lot 24 (link).

      Coronari Auctions
    • Elegante Louis XV-Kommode mit Chinoiseriedekor
      May. 09, 2021

      Elegante Louis XV-Kommode mit Chinoiseriedekor

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      Elegante Louis XV-Kommode mit Chinoiseriedekor wohl von Jean-Baptiste Befort (1783-1840) Rosenholz, furniert sowie Einlagen aus unterschiedlichen, teilw. gefärbten Edelhölzern. Dreiseitig bombierter Korpus, flankiert von weit ausgezogenen Ecklisenen, in ausgestellte Beine übergehend. In der Front zwei Schubladen sans traverse, optisch durch großflächig angelegtes Intarsienbild aus musizierenden Geishas sowie durchbrochen gearbeitete Rahmung aus applizierten und ineinander verschlungenen Rocaillen verbunden. Flächendeckend breit gerahmte, gespiegelt angeordnete Furnierfelder. Korrespondierende, gering überstehende Deckplatte aus beigefarbenem, grau-rot gemasertem Marmor, rest. H. 89 cm. 109 cm x 57 cm. Stilistisch orientiert sich das Möbel an den höfischen Vorbildern des 18. Jh., wie z.B. den Kommoden von Pierre Bernard (1715-1770). An elegant French rosewood veneered Louis XV chest of drawers with chinoiseries probably of Jean-Baptiste Befort. Restored. Frankreich. Paris. Wohl Jean-Baptiste Befort. 1. Hälfte 19. Jh.

      Kunstauktionshaus Schloss Ahlden
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