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Lot 1802 D‡α

A Louis XV chest of drawers

Auction 1196 - overview Cologne
20.05.2022, 10:00 - Decorative Arts incl. Highly Important Mortars the Schwarzach Collection Part IV.
Estimate: 8.000 € - 9.000 €
Result: 7.500 € (incl. premium)
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A Louis XV chest of drawers

Rosewood, palisander, maple. walnut and boxwood veneer on oak corpus, ormolu mountings, restored Brèche d'Alep marble top. Bombé-form corpus with four drawers. The drawer fronts and sides inlaid with floral motifs. With older restorations and subsequent losses. H 89.5, W 112, D 61 cm.
Paris, Pierre Antoine Galligne, presumably before 1770.

Pierre Kjellberg has only a very brief entry on the ebenist Pierre Antoine Galligne, who was born around 1725 and passed his master's examination in 1767. His studio was located in the Rue de Charenton in Paris. He worked in a very conservative style, even still producing Régence designs and often using rosewood and palisander.

Literature

For more on this ebenist, see Kjellberg, Le mobilier français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris 2008, p. 382.