A Boulle chest for the Nelson-Atkins Museum

1]both seem to have been associated at least since the Christie's London sale of June 20, 1985. The set, which recently appeared among the thousand and some lots dispersed during the sales of the Al-Thani collection at the Lambert hotel at Sotheby's in October 2022 (see the news item from 10/11/22), was acquired by the Qatari prince from the Perrin gallery in Paris in 2008.

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1. Attributed to André-Charles Boulle (1642-1732)

Chestaround 1685-1700

France, 18th century

Basesecond half of the 18th century

Ebony, tortoiseshell, brass, pewter and gilded bronze

Kansas City, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Photo : Sotheby’s

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This model of chest on legs is part of the Boulle furniture represented in the collection of New Designs for furniture and bronze and marquetry works invented and engraved by André Charles Boulle published by the cabinetmaker at Mariette around 1710, several copies of which have reached us, preserved in the Library of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, at the Kunstbibliothek in Berlin or at the Wallace Collection in London. It is similar to the “Toilet chest mounted on its foot” represented on the third engraved plate, a plate which takes, in reverse order, a large red chalk drawing by André-Charles Boulle, theStudy for tortoiseshell marquetry furniture preserved by the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. This drawing and the copy of the collection of…

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