Thomas Moore
Head of Department
Lot 6*,TP
A Louis XV ormolu mounted tulipwood, amaranth and marquetry serpentine commode by Jean Popsel
17 November 2021, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£7,000 - £10,000
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A Louis XV ormolu mounted tulipwood, amaranth and marquetry serpentine commode by Jean Popsel
Circa 1760, the half-veneered shaped tablets to the front and ends inlaid with assorted flowers, the moulded marble top above two short drawers and one long drawer over a shaped apron, flanked by acanthus, rocaille, C- and S-scroll and berried-foliate cast angle mounts with chutes, on slender cabriole legs, the front legs terminating in cabochon embedded opposing C-scroll and foliate sabots, stamped: 'J. POPSEL, JME', also with a paper label which reads: 'Sotheby's, lot 128, New York', 115cm wide x 58cm deep x 87cm high, (45in wide x 22 1/2in deep x 34in high)
Footnotes
Jean Popsel, maitre in 1755.
Popsel, a German emigre, was a cabinet maker whose first workshop was based on Rue Traversiere, Paris, until the end of Louis XV's reign in 1774. The business then evidently re-located to Rue Saint-Nicolas where he is recorded as working in that capacity until only shortly before the French Revolution began in 1789.
The main part of Popsel's known oeuvre comprises a number of Louis XV and Louis XV/XVI Transitional commodes and encoignures, many of which are inlaid with fine floral marquetry, as on the present lot, P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Francais du XVIIIeme Siecle, 1989Paris, pp.'s 666-668.
