Item features Boulle Card Table

Boulle Card Table

       We present you a card table from the 19th century.      

This piece of furniture is modeled on the 17th-century, Baroque furniture with Boulle marqueterie.

The table stands on four cabriole legs. The table top is two-sided, can be extended, and is padded from the inside with a green felt.

Thanks to the rotating system, the top, made of two hinged parts, opens after being turned

around the asymmetrically located spindle, which is fixed to the inside of the apron. 

The table top and apron are of a wavy line.

Presented article of furniture is French-polished in black and richly ornamented with a marqueterie of tortoiseshell, and brass sheets cut into

floral patterns.

 There is a Roman scene in the central section of the top.

The edge of the table top, and part of the apron, are contoured with a brass molding.

Furthermore, there are cartyarids of gilded bronze on the legs.

Dimensions: Height: 79 cm; Width: 90 cm; Depth: 47 cm.

Table top after extension: 90 x 93.5 cm

This card table is after a thorough and professional renovation. It presents itself strikingly.

We also have two dressers, a writing desk and a clock in the same style.

All the items are available in the Exclusives tab.

Boulle’s technique – historical overview

The name of the technique derives from the last name of the French artist-carpenter, André-Charles Boulle, who lived in 1642 -1732. In truth, this marqueterie technique had been discovered by an artist who had been creating before Boulle, Pierre Golle,

The technique was that a pattern drawn on paper was redrawn onto tightly adjacent sheets of brass and tortoiseshell, and then the pattern was cut out with a special saw. Obtained in this way were two patterns: first, cut in tortoiseshell, and second in brass. Boulle often manufactured furniture in pairs. One with marquetry of tortoiseshell inlaid with brass (Premier partie), and second, a negative of the former, cut in sheet brass inlaid with tortoiseshell (Contre partie).

On the one hand, fragments of brass were usually shaded with engraved lines to achieve the effect of three-dimensionality. On the other hand, tortoiseshell was often dyed red or blue, by placing paper dyed in the color under the main body of the furniture.

Furniture like this was synonymous for luxury, and only a few among the aristocracy circles of Louis XIV could afford it.

THE AUTHENTICITY (period of origin, type of material used in

 manufacturing) has been

confirmed by an experienced expert in vintage

 and antique items.

Antique Beauty company issues

CERTIFICATE OF EXHIBITOR

on presented item, which confirms authenticity,

 legal origin, the approximate

date and place of the item manufacturing.

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