Lot n° 173
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30000 - 50000
EUR
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: 38 640EUR
Piece of furniture with two Provencal bodies by Thomas - Lot 173
Piece of furniture with two Provencal bodies by Thomas
HACHE Opening with four leaves and two drawers in belt, the upper body revealing a row of three drawers, it rests on five blackened wood ball feet.
Entirely inlaid, on a walnut background, with foliage and acanthus scrolls in cartouches and stylized scrolls imitating monograms - partly in the upper body and partly in the lower body - in geometric reserves with blackened wood moldings, surrounded by olive burl and fine friezes of light and dark wood alternating in a checkerboard pattern drawing the rectangular reserves, which are themselves surrounded by walnut burl and cloudy walnut burr hearts.
Inlays of birds in flowering branches and leaves tinted in green, decorate both the cornice and the drawers, and are surrounded by small inlaid motifs, a three-lobed frieze running along the edge of the recess echoing that of the cornice where it is topped by a frieze of light and dark dice.
Wide friezes of foliage executed in part on the sides of the cornice to which respond those of the lower body, executed in counterpart. Same technique for the stylized scrolls of the spandrels in the heart of the rectangular reserves with checkerboard friezes, in a decoration of walnut and olive tree veneers.
The interior drawers are veneered with veined olive wood simply inlaid with a listel of light wood drawing a cartouche.
Thomas HACHE (Toulouse 1664-Grenoble 1747), Aixen-
Provence or Chambéry, around 1685-1690
H. 224 cm; W. 161,5 cm; D. 60,3 cm
Old restorations having led to a slight increase in the depth of the lower body, of which one door is redone. One of the doors has been redone. The keyholes, hinges, one of the plates and the knobs are in wood and are reported.
Provenance : acquired at an unknown time by the family of the present owner, descendant of
of Magdelaine de Venel, who was sub-governor of the children of France and whose mansion is in Aix-en- Provence.
Provence.
It will be reproduced and described in volume 2 of the book "Le génie des Hache", P. et F. Rouge, Faton 2005, soon to be published by
Faton.
THOMAS HACHE'S FIRST FURNITURE FOR THE PROVENCE NOBLESSE Since the discovery in 2014 of Thomas Hache's first two-body piece of furniture
Thomas Hache, now preserved in the Fondation Bemberg in Toulouse, another
Toulouse, have been identified another two-body richly inlaid (private collection), as well as the model of the Museum of Tapestries in Aix-en-Provence, that of the castle of La Barben now in a private collection in Aix, without forgetting the two-body of Salve de
Villedieu and the Provencal model richly inlaid from an Italian collection (private collection) which complete this new corpus of furniture from the production of Thomas Hache before his installation as master in Grenoble, around 1695.
On this two-body piece, as on several of these Provencal models, we find the same small checkerboard friezes and walnut marquetry backgrounds, both of which are often seen on small 16th century South German cabinets, as well as a similar decorative repertoire with the recurrent use of heart-shaped reserves and the use of burl and veined walnut, associated with veined and burled olive. Here, the inlays of stylized scrolls evoking fancy monograms, in part and in part, are also characteristic of the manner of Thomas
Hache's style, since this same type of decoration adorns the cabinet simulating a two-body unit that bears the covenant arms of the Mazenods and the de
Thomas, Provencal families of Marseille and Toulon.
The marquetry of flowers and birds, scrolls and other stylized motifs as well as the composition and shape of the reserves are perfectly in keeping with the manner of Thomas Hache, whose reputation crossed the borders of the Duchy of Savoy where he worked from 1685 to 1695, as much for the nobility of Chambéry as for the nobility of Provence, delivering these pieces of furniture with two richly inlaid bodies even before creating his famous scagliola cabinets like the one of the Marquis de Mirabeau, 1st Consul of Aix-en-Provence.
Françoise ROUGE
Expert at the Court of Appeal of Paris
06 03 93 23 76
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