Paar Pariser Lack encoignuren, Jacques Dubois (1694 – 1763), Meister 1742, zug.
Height: 94 cm.
Width: 60 cm.
Depth: 83 cm.
Paris, Louis XV period, around 1750. Oak

body with French aventurine lacquer finish. Panels Cantonese export product in black lacquer with decoration in gold, red and brown. Interior veneer in cherry and ebony. Bronze fittings cast, chased and fire-gilded. The surface-mounted cover panels in Campan Mélangé marble. Three-legged, standing in ormolubronzesabots, straight legs slightly retracting above the knees. Curved front with lambrequin frame with plastic rocailles and black lacquer panels above showing figures in a water landscape. The curved marble tops follow the lines of the furniture.
Provenance:
Paris, Didier Aaron.

Note:
Jacques Dubois (master from 1742) died in 1763 and left the workshop to his son René Dubois (1737-1799), who also continued his father's stamp.

Note 2:
A lacquer chest of his hand is kept in the Musée Carnavalet, created in 1745. Another chest of drawers (also around 1750) as well as a Bureau plat for Marie Leczinska are today kept in the Musée du Louvre in the Grande salle Louis XV (1221554) (13)


A pair of Paris lacquer encoignures, Jacques Dubois (1694 - 1763),
master since 1742, attributed
Height: 94 cm.
Width: 60 cm.
Depth: 83 cm.
Paris, Louis XV period, ca. 1750,

Oak structure with French Aventurine lacquer. The panels are Cantonese exports with black lacquer with gold, red and brown décor. Campan Mélangé marble covering slabs.

Provenance:
Paris, Didier Aaron.

Notes:
Jacques Dubois (master since 1742) died in 1763 and left his workshop to his son René Dubois, who continued to use his father's stamp.

Notes 2:
One of his lacquer commodes is held at the Musée Carnavalet which was created in 1745, Another commode (also ca. 1750) and a bureau plat for Marie Leczinska is held at the Musée du Louvre in the Grande Salle Louis XV.