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Hendrik van Soest

Antwerp 1659 – after 1716 Antwerp

„Grand bureau de la Chine“ – writing cabinet with Boulle marquetry in Première partie. Circa 1700

Boulle marquetry in red-coloured tortoiseshell, brass, tin, mother-of-pearl, copper and palisander; body and drawers in oak and pinewood, partially veneered in palisander; turned feet in ebony; capitals and bases from gilt bronze; writing surface covered with leather. 100 × 65 × 149 cm (39 ⅜ × 25 ⅝ × 58 ⅝ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Hendrik van Soest. „Grand bureau de la Chine“ – writing cabinet with Boulle marquetry in Première partie. Circa 1700.

Estimate:

EUR 100,000

 

- 120,000

USD 114,000

 

- 137,000

Sold for:

75,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2016

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 02.06.2016

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Boulle marquetry in red-coloured tortoiseshell, brass, tin, mother-of-pearl, copper and palisander; body and drawers in oak and pinewood, partially veneered in palisander; turned feet in ebony; capitals and bases from gilt bronze; writing surface covered with leather. 100 × 65 × 149 cm (39 ⅜ × 25 ⅝ × 58 ⅝ in.). On the reverse on a label in pen: 116 [or "M.“] Simon. With key. Leather writing surface renewed.

Comparable object: Writing desk, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum Munich, inv. no. R 3362 / companion piece with matching Contrepartie, Schloss Schleißheim, inv. no. SNS. M 170 / decorative writing desk with addition, Münchner Residenz, inv. no. Res. Mü M 148 / Writing cabinet, 1995 art dealership of Jean-Louis Picard, Paris / addition to a writing cabinet, Grassi-Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig

Related literature: Brigitte Langer: Die Möbel der Münchner Residenz, vol. II, Munich 1996 / ibid: Die Möbel der Schlösser Nymphenburg und Schleißheim, Munich 2000 / Kerstin Frost: Ein Antwerpener Schreibkabinett aus der Werkstatt des Hendrik van Soest. Technologische Untersuchungen und konservierende Maßnahmen; in: Rolph Bothe: Möbel. Uhren. Reliefintarsien, Berlin 2001 / Jacques Toussain: Un cabinet, un roi, une ville: een kunstkast voor Willem III, Namur 2004 / Thibaut Wolvesperges: Henry van Soest. Marchand ébeniste anversois, banquier et pouvoyeur de l’électeur de Bavière à Paris; in: Revue belge d’archéologie et d’histoire de l’art, vol. LXXIII (2004) / Renate Eikelmann (ed.): Prunkmöbel am Münchner Hof. Barocker Dekor unter der Lupe, Munich 2011.

Since 2011 private collection, Paris

Auction catalogue: Beaussant Lefèvre, Paris, 2. December 2011, lot 183 / Auction catalogue: Koller, Zürich, 21 March 2013, lot 1131