French Rosewood Louis XV Style Marquetry Bureau

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Regent Antiques has been trading in London for three decades. We specialise in English and Continental antique furniture, silver and porcelain. Our main markets are Europe and North America and we export worldwide.

French Rosewood Louis XV Style Marquetry Bureau This is an elegant bureau in the French Louis XV style with a beautiful fitted interior, dating from the last quarter of the 20th century. This magnificent piece is of the finest rosewood and features profuse marquetry decoration and ormolu mounts. There are three small drawers and a hidden well inside for ample storage space with a key. Add a touch of unparalleled style to your home.

Condition:

In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation of condition.  

Dimensions in cm:

Height 91 x Width 73 x Depth 47

Dimensions in inches:

Height 35.8 x Width 28.7 x Depth 18.5

Rosewood is a rich warm reddish brown wood that has a distinct grain with dark brown and black outlining. One variety of Rosewood can vary significantly from another even though it is of the same species. These Rosewoods, native of India, South East Asia and Brazil, were dense and awkward to work with. It was renowned for quickly bluntening cutting tools and visibly darkening in colour when over prepared.

The Brazilian species of Rosewood was by far the most beautifully figured and therefore it became the most sought after and rare. This was the wood of choice for the great box makers, David and Thomas Edwards who used it to veneer some of their finest pieces.

Marquetry is decorative artistry where pieces of material (such as wood, mother of pearl, pewter, brass silver or shell) of different colours are inserted into surface wood veneer to form intricate patterns such as scrolls or flowers.

The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence . Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed of fitted marbles, jaspers and semi-precious stones. This work, called opere di commessi, has medieval parallels in Central Italian "Cosmati "-work of inlaid marble floors, altars and columns. The technique is known in English as pietra dura , for the "hardstones" used: onyx , jasper , cornelian , lapis lazuli and colored marbles. In Florence, the Chapel of the Medici at San Lorenzo is completely covered in a colored marble facing using this demanding jig-sawn technique. Techniques of wood marquetry were developed in Antwerp and other Flemish centers of luxury cabinet-making during the early 16th century. The craft was imported full-blown to France after the mid-seventeenth century, to create furniture of unprecedented luxury being made at the royal manufactory of the Gobelins , charged with providing furnishings to decorate Versailles and the other royal residences of Louis XIV . Early masters of French marquetry were the Fleming Pierre Golle and his son-in-law, André-Charles Boulle , who founded a dynasty of royal and Parisian cabinet-makers (ébénistes ) and gave his name to a technique of marquetry employing tortoiseshell and brass with pewter in arabesque or intricately foliate designs. Ormolu  (from French 'or moulu', signifying ground or pounded gold) is an 18th-century English term for applying finely ground, high-carat gold  in a mercury  amalgam  to an object of bronze .The mercury is driven off in a kiln  leaving behind a gold-coloured veneer known as 'gilt bronze'.

The manufacture of true ormolu employs a process known as mercury-gilding or fire-gilding , in which a solution of nitrate of mercury  is applied to a piece of copper , brass , or bronze, followed by the application of an amalgam  of gold and mercury. The item was then exposed to extreme heat until the mercury burned off and the gold remained, adhered to the metal object.

No true ormolu was produced in France after around 1830 because legislation had outlawed the use of mercury. Therefore, other techniques were used instead but nothing surpasses the original mercury-firing ormolu method for sheer beauty and richness of colour. Electroplating  is the most common modern technique. Ormolu techniques are essentially the same as those used on silver , to produce silver-gilt  (also known as vermeil ).

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