Lot 215: A GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND TUILIPWOOD BUREAU PLAT STAMPED A. FLEURY LOUIS XV, MID 18TH CENTURY

A GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND TUILIPWOOD BUREAU PLAT STAMPED A. FLEURY LOUIS XV, MID 18TH CENTURY the serpentine leather-lined top above three drawers, on cabriole legs, the underside with a black ink inscription 19 Hill Street-1950, mounts re-gilded Adrien Fleury (1721-1774) 73cm. high, 155cm. wide, 80cm. deep; 2ft. 5in., 5ft. 1in., 2ft. 7½in.

John Cornforth, Making A Present of The Past, Country Life, April 7 1994, p.70;
Montgomery-Massingberd & Sykes, Great Houses of England and Wales, 1994, London, p. 247 illustrated in the Blue Drawing Room:
Derry Moore, Chatsworth, Architectural Digest, January 2003, p. 99 illustrated with Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire shown seated beside it.

Certainly Spencer Compton Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire (1833-1908) but possibly acquired earlier

Photographed in the Yellow Drawing Room, Chatsworth during the 20th century

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, pp. 310-311.


Adrien Fleury (1721-1774)
Fleury was based in the Faubourg Saint-Germain, working initially in the Rue Traversière, then moving to the Rue de Charonne and subsequently on to the Rue Saint-Hyacinthe. Inventories list works inlaid with marquetry and in the Chinese taste and the few pieces that are encountered today are almost all characteristic of commodes in the early Louis XV style.