A Louis XVI gilt-bronze mounted satiné veneered cylinder bureau à cylindre, circa 1780, stamped by Jacques Bircklé
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
with three frieze drawers, the left compartment forming a safe, and two side pull-outs, the cylinder revealing four drawers and three compartments, the upper part opening with four drawers, with a gilt-tooled brown Moroccan leather, on tapered square-section legs fitted with sabots, with a white marble top; stamped J. BIRCKLE and JME
Haut. 125 cm, larg. 164 cm, prof. 82 cm ; Height 49 ¼ in, width 64 ½ in, depth 32 ¼ in
Jacques Bircklé, cabinetmaker, became a master craftsman in 1764.
He became a supplier to the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne under Louis XVI and produced numerous pieces for the Enfants de France, the Duke of Orléans, the Duke of Aumont, the Viscount of Calonne, and the Princesses of Tingry and Lamballe.
In 1787, he delivered several bois satiné commodes for Queen Marie Antoinette's apartments at the Château de Saint-Cloud, two commodes for the Countess of Provence at Versailles, and actively contributed to furnishing Madame Elisabeth's pavilion at Grand-Montreuil.
His furniture is preserved at the Palace of Versailles, the Cognacq-Jay Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Petit Palais Museum and the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris.