Chiffoniere Stamped I. Dubois, 18th Century

Louis XV chiffonniere, Stamped I. DUBOIS, from the 18th century. Oval in shape, it opens on the front with a drawer, which closes with a key. It is topped with its Aleppo breccia marble surrounded by an openwork gilt bronze gallery. It stands on 4 slightly arched legs, connected by a marquetry spacer, surrounded by a gilt bronze gallery. Our chiffonniere measures 48 cm in length, 36 cm in width and 76 cm in height. It is in very good condition.DUBOIS Jacques Jacques Dubois (1693-1763) - cabinetmaker - Master on September 5, 1742. Dubois is a great master, who knew how not to confine himself to a genre and who knew how to adapt his flexible and varied talent to everything in furniture that could represent the beauty and nobility of lines. Jacques Dubois, born in Pontoise around 1693, was one of the greatest Parisian cabinetmakers during the reign of Louis XV. A long-time freelance worker in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, he obtained his master's degree in 1742 at the age of forty-nine and pursued a brilliant career for nearly twenty years on rue de Charenton. Cabinetmaker to the King, he worked for the great nobility. The Dubois stamp guaranteed high-end furniture, highly prized in France and abroad. He produced a large number of remarkable works, and his particular expertise constituted the "Dubois style," close to the Rocaille style. He made abundant use of animated and irregular bronzes for the ornamentation and framing of chests of drawers, corner cabinets, and desks made from amaranth, rosewood, violet wood, satinwood, etc. veneer. One of his great specialties was the use of European varnish in the Far Eastern style as well as Chinese lacquer panels on a black and red background. All his creations of great richness and extraordinary fantasy were rather large and medium sized and the commodes, the flat desks and the sloping desks were his favorite pieces of furniture. In 1752 he became a juror of the corporation of Joiners-Cabinet Makers whose role was to judge the quality of the furniture produced by his colleagues. In 1763 he was charged with evaluating the heritage left by Jean François Oeben. And after his own death a few months later, an inventory of his achievements was made in order to evaluate the influence of his work in the development of the Louis XV style. His workshop on rue de Charenton was taken over by his son René in 1763 who continued his father's work for another twenty years while also enjoying a glowing reputation.