A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND BOIS-DE-BOUT MARQUETRY CARTONNIER

A similar Japanese lacquer cartonnier stamped B.V.R.B. and raised on a stand is in the J. Paul Getty Museum (illustrated in A. Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, p. 196, pl. 188). Another cartonnier with floral marquetry to the sides on a simpler concave-fronted stand, attributed to B.V.R.B. by Francis Watson in the 1956 Wallace Collection catalogue and then to Latz by Henry Hawley in 1970 (H. Hawley, Jean-Pierre Latz, Cabinetmaker, The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, September/October 1970, pp. 203-59) was found to be stamped LATZ in a 1972 restoration (P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection Catalogue, London, 1996, Vol. II, no. 189 (F82), pp. 915-19). A third example, incorporating a clock is illustrated in Janneau & P. Devinoy, Le Meuble Léger en France, Paris, 1952, pl. 50. Another related example was sold from the collection of Karl Lagerfeld, Christie's Monaco, 29 April 2000, lot 330. The Lagerfeld cartonnier, formerly owned by the Rothschilds at the Château de Ferrières, was stamped by Denis Genty (maître in 1754).