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Mallet-Bond-Stree-And-New-York 141 New Bond Street London W1S 2BS 929 Madison Avenue at 74th Street New York 10021 LONDON MALLETT NEW YORK 3 Introduction In 2007, we sold our second London shop Bourdon House and absorbed its unique identity into our galleries on Bond Street and Madison Avenue. Bourdon House always added a distinctive and individual flair to the more traditional Mallett taste, with its eclectic mix of furniture and objects that were not acquired essentially for their importance, but more for their combination of style, individuality and occasionally their charm and wit. In the current market we feel it is important to not only offer pieces that combine the elements of fantasy and originality, but also exhaustive sourcing. We have developed over the years an extensive network which allows us to offer pieces that are fresh to the market in every sense. We are proud to offer you in this catalogue a treasure trove inspired by the unusual imagination that was the spirit of Bourdon House; mixing the last three centuries, antique through contemporary, from countries as far afield as Japan in the East, Spain in the South, Russia in the North and America in the West. It is truly a trans-global collection. Over the last few years collecting has changed and these days it is increasingly important to find something that will, of itself, give a room focus and be individual. Mallett has for many years specialised in finding pieces that fill this role. This catalogue with its eclectic diversity continues that tradition. This, our Autumn catalogue hopes to reflect the energy of both the past and the present to inspire the new spirit of collecting. Giles Hutchinson Smith Chief Executive 4 LONDON MALLETT NEW YORK A PAIR OF LOUIS XV 5 PAINTED COMMODES A pair of Louis XV bombé vernis Gilles Joubert (1689-1775) was Garde-Meuble were exempt (now yellowed), with silvered- martin single door commodes a Parisian ébéniste who worked from such regulations; however, bronze mounts, delivered decorated on a white ground for the Garde-Meuble of Louis the minutely-detailed inventory 11th January 1755 for Madame with coral floral vignettes XV for two and a half decades, descriptions of the Garde- Adelaïde fourth daughter and framed by interlocking scrolls. beginning in 1748, earning Meuble de la Couronne and sixth child of King Louis XV The legs are painted in coral to the title ébéniste ordinaire inventory numbers stencilled of France at Versailles, was echo the presence of mounts. du Garde-Meuble in 1758, and on surviving furniture have returned to the Garde-Meuble The commodes retain their finally that of ébéniste du roi enabled scholars to identify the same day. Comparable to original breche violette tops. (“royal cabinet-maker”) on the a number of pieces from the Mallett commodes, it was Attributed to Gilles Joubert. death of Jean-François Oeben Joubert’s workshop. In purchased for Versailles in France, circa 1760 in 1763. He produced case the decade following 1763 1965, though the apartment furniture in a robust Rococo he supplied 2200 pieces of for which it was intended no Height: 30in (76cm) style, but from the later 1760s furniture to the court; under longer exists, replaced by Louis Width: 24in (60cm) his furniture increasingly the pressure of such a volume XVI’s library. In interior design, Depth: 14in (36cm) shows a conservative of commissions, he was obliged vernis martin is a type of compromise with the to subcontract even some lacquer named after the F2J0349 nascent neoclassical style. important pieces of furniture. French brothers, Guillaume Much of his furniture was Not all the furniture delivered and Etienne-Simon Martin. produced before Parisian guild by Joubert received a It is an imitation Chinese regulations required ébénistes favourable reception: a bombé lacquer and was applied to stamp their production, and commode painted with flowers to a wide variety of items, pieces intended for the royal on a white vernis martin ground from furniture to coaches. ğ THE ‘CARINA’ DINING TABLE The table is constructed from Klauser and Carpenter then pursued further studies at three pieces of interlocking Ed Carpenter originally trained the Royal College of Art, where Carrara marble. as a sculptor at Kingston he has now taught since 2007. England, 2010 University, before studying Klauser & Carpenter Product Design at the Royal collaborate in the field of Height: 29in (74cm) College of Art. Following furniture, product and interiors, Width: 118in (300cm) numerous successful and also allow each other to Depth: 43½in (110cm) commissions, he established work on personal projects. his design office in 2001. C3A0266 Andre Klauser first studied design in Germany, before Suitable for interior and moving to London to join Jasper exterior use. Morrison’s design studio. Andre 6 7 8 LONDON MALLETT NEW YORK A CHARLES X A PAIR OF 9 WALNUT GUERIDON BRONZE GEESE A Charles X walnut gueridon A pair of late nineteenth inlaid with fine boxwood century oriental naturalistically stringing. The hexagonal modelled, bronze geese, each baluster supported by a tripod standing in life like form with plinth mounted with scrolls head raised upwards with gilt and terminating in castors. enrichments. The table retains its original China, circa 1880 Broccatelle marble top. France, circa 1830 Height: 15in (38cm) Width: 15in (38cm) Height: 29in (74cm) Depth: 7½in (19cm) Diameter: 36in (92cm) O2I0380 F2J0347 10 LONDON MALLETT NEW YORK A REGENCY TÔLE 11 CENTRE TABLE A very rare Regency period Similarly decorated japanned work for the Prince Regent at were supplied by them too. papier mâché, tôle and tôle goods were produced in Brighton Pavilion between 1800 Most of it seems to have been japanned centre table, the the Pontypool factory owned and 1804, where they designed either Chinese - especially top decorated with a by the Allgood family from the interiors in the Chinese style. bamboo furniture - or English chinoiserie scene of courtiers mid-18th century until circa Their accounts for this period in the Chinese manner. In in a landscape setting against 1820. However examples of show that from the start the 1802 ‘One very Fine Japan India a black japanned ground, the furniture incorporating panels Craces were involved in much Cabinet...£14’ was invoiced, border decorated with a trellis of Pontypool tôle are extremely more than merely the applied the following year five more, and floral frieze and having a rare, as the factory mainly decoration at Brighton. Not one costing £15, and in 1804 a gilt-metal mount, supported produced small decorative only did they amuse the Prince charge was made for japanning on a turned stem and floral objects such as urns and trays. with a variety of Chinese a stand for a cabinet in black japanned decoration in red, The present table also has curiosities, including costumes, and gilt (see Megan Aldrich (Ed.), resting on brass paw caps affinities with the work of ivory junks, and even ‘seven The Craces Royal Decorators, and castors. John and Frederick Crace, pounds’ of Chinese tobacco’, 1768-1899, 1989, pp. 21-26. England, circa 1810 whose commissions included but large quantities of furniture Height: 27½in (70cm) Width: 41in (104cm) Depth: 34½in (87cm) F3A0150 12 LONDON MALLETT NEW YORK 13 A PAIR OF BRONZE A CHINESE EXPORT ğ A PAIR OF BOHEMIAN PATINATED IRON WATERCOLOUR GLASS AND GILT CONSOLES LANDSCAPE CHANDELIERS A pair of French modernist A large-scale late 19th century A pair of twelve branch bronze patinated iron console Chinese export watercolour Bohemian gilded green and tables inspired by Louis XVI landscape of Hong Kong opaline chandeliers. The arms designs. merchants at the port of and stem fashioned as gilt France, circa 1950 Canton. In the centre is the bronze vines issuing from American flag flanked by those a basket set with boldly Height: 34½in (87cm) of Britain, France and Holland. modelled glass vine leaves. Width: 38½in (98cm) China, circa 1890 The arms and socles are Depth: 17½in (45cm) mounted as naturalistically Height: 38½in (98cm) painted honeysuckle flowers. F3A0106 Width: 51in (130cm) Now electrified. Bohemia, circa 1880 P3A0253 Height: 42in (107cm) Diameter: 24in (61cm) L2J0351 14 15 16 LONDON MALLETT NEW YORK A PAIR OF FAUTEUILS AN EMPIRE MAHOGANY 17 BY HUTTUNEN CONSOLE TABLE A highly unusual pair of 1940's The Finnish architect Erkki modernism. Between 1943 and A fine quality Empire mahogany Finnish walnut armchairs. The Huttunen (born Alavus, Finland 1953 Huttunen was Director in console table. Throughout the chairs have rounded front legs 1901), completed his training Chief of the National Building veneers are of the finest quality which sweep up to a shaped at the Technical University in Board. He died in Helsinki in and figuring. The table has gilt armrest which in turn sweeps Helsinki in 1927. Between 1928 1956. A major figure of north- bronze mounts on the centre down to a square back leg and 1939 he was architect of European Functionalism, he of the frieze drawer and on with sharply carved corner the building department of has designed furniture for the knee of the scroll front mouldings. From the private Suomen Osuuskauppojen some of his own buildings legs and at the feet. Now apartment of Erkki Huttunen Keskuskunta (SOK; the Central and also practiced as a painter with a replacement portor and the design attributed Finnish Cooperative Society) and caricaturist. marble top. to him. and, from 1940 to 41, the France, circa 1810 Finland, circa 1940 department’s head. In 1931 LITERATURE Huttunen set up his own Jokinen, Teppo , Erkki Huttunen: Height: 37in (94cm) Height: 28½in (73cm) architect’s office which, in 1901-1956 Arkkitehti. Helsinki: Width: 48in (122cm) Width: 28½in (73cm) the 1930’s and 1940’s, was Abacus Ajankohta 3, 1993.
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