Transition Renaissance - Louis XIV

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

In terms of furniture, the name of époque Louis XIV is mostly applied to the later years of his reign. The cabinet d'apparat (luxury cabinet) which I am discussing now, dated to 1670-1680, is earlier to that refined period.

In its general look it is a Renaissance furniture, heavily decorated. The cabinet proper is nicely decorated with a marquetry of flowers, but it is mounted on six legs made of golden wooden caryatids that seem incongruous for a piece of furniture.

Overall, this cabinet is important: 188 x 134 x 54 cm. It is attributed to Pierre Gole, one of the few cabinet makers of that era whose name has survived (or rather has been raised, because we can not find it in dictionaries somenow ancient ...).

For once, I can give you the price before the sale: Néret-Minet et Tessier auctioned it at 305 K € hammer price (360 K € fees included) on 21 November salle Drouot in Paris. It is coming back to the same place on January 20, presented by the same auction house after the buyer failed to pay.

Under French law, this first buyer must pay the difference between the first and the second auction, which gives him no right of ownership over the piece, of course.

I can not guarantee that I will be able to find the result of January 20.

[Pierre Tavlitzki]

That is what I had anticipated. I did not find the result on the web. It is a normal situation for a second presentation.

We shall, therefore, stay with the result of last year: 305 K € excluding fees on an estimate between 200 and 300 K €.