Commode In Marquetry Traces Stamp Jean Lapie Transition Period

Louis XV Louis XVI Transition period chest of drawers stamped by Jean Lapie

Beautiful and interesting chest of drawers from the Louis XV / Louis XVI Transition period.
It bears a trace of the stamp of the famous master cabinetmaker Jean Lapie.
It has a wood veneer marquetry in violet rosewood rosewood.
It opens with three drawers in three rows on the front without a crosspiece.
Beautiful period gilded bronze decoration on the sabots / falls / handles / lock entries.
Covered with a marble top, furniture in good original condition having undergone no restorations other than buffer varnishing.

Sold with certificate of expertise by approved expert.

BIOGRAPHY:
Lapie The young Jean, brother of Lapie The elder Nicolas Alexandre, born around 1734, became a MASTER in Paris on July 31, 1762. He operated a workshop and a store on rue de Charenton where many upholsterers were supplied. Jean Lapie has always brought a lot of diversity and fantasy to his works. He made all kinds of furniture in floral marquetry, mosaic tiles, gray wood, Macassar ebony, rosewood, mahogany and varnished in the Chinese style. In his home there were chests of drawers topped with a cupboard, others in corners, transformation tables, screens trimmed with silver-plated brass... The upholsterer Maugé, rue Saint André des Arts, bought several works from him with hinged doors on the backs of books, including a curious “secretary chest of drawers”, disguised as a bookcase. Tested by the Revolution, this cabinetmaker went bankrupt on July 1, 1790. The most striking piece on which I noted his stamp: J. LAPIE, is a small coffee table, of a very graceful shape, in violet wood with lemon tree fillets.
18th century cabinetmakers, their works and their brands by Count François de Salverte. Edition G Van Oest et Cie 1923.

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