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Louis 15 Chest Of Drawers, Stamped Criaerd (1689-1776) 18th Century

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"Louis 15 Chest Of Drawers, Stamped Criaerd (1689-1776) 18th Century "
Superb Louis 15 chest of drawers, curved on all sides, stamped M CRIAERD, partly a little faded... from the 18th century. It opens on the front with 4 drawers, on 3 rows. Very rich gilded bronze ornamentation, such as falls, pull handles, sabots and lock entries. It rests on arched feet, fitted with gilded bronze sabots. It is topped with its superb Sarrancolin marble with its Corbin beak all around. It measures 129 cm in length, 62 cm in depth and 82 cm in height. It is in very good condition. CRIAERD Mathieu Mathieu Criaerd (1689-1776) – cabinetmaker - master's degree obtained on July 29, 1738: A prolific cabinetmaker during the reign of Louis XV, Mathieu Criaerd is known for his many chests of drawers in mosaics and lacquers or varnishes. From the rue Traversière-Saint-Antoine where he worked, Mathieu Criaerd presents himself as the most talented and prolific member of this family of cabinetmakers. Coming from a Flemish family, he is the son of "Jean Criaerd, bourgeois of the city of Brussels" and the brother of the cabinetmaker Antoine Criaerd. From his union with Jacqueline Godelart - daughter of François Godelart, cabinetmaker of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine - in 1721, he will have two sons in the profession: Antoine Mathieu (master on April 22, 1747) and Sébastien Criaerd. Although he worked for Jean-François Oeben until his death in 1763, he also delivered many luxury pieces of furniture in the 1740s for the Garde-Meuble royal to the merchant-mercer Hébert. Several pieces of furniture provided by the merchant for the royal residences thus bear his stamp. Subsequently, in the years 1755-1765, he worked for his successor, Gilles Joubert. Mathieu Criaerd's style is characterized by high-quality and carefully crafted Louis XV furniture. He also made a great many chests of drawers, which alone reveal an overview of the evolution of the style and fashions of furniture decoration in the first part of the 18th century. His first chests of drawers, straight or arched, called "en tombeau" borrow from the Régence models, dressed in dark woods - rosewood or amaranth - and decorated with classical bronzes. His Louis XV works are characterized by their veneer of rosewood or violet wood but also by marquetry of satinwood and amaranth with crosspiece patterns on all their faces. Simpler, these models are often presented with two drawers and then without visible crosspieces. They are decorated with a bronze decoration composed of thin scrolls, foliage, garlands, always very nicely chiseled. The cabinetmaker practices a little floral marquetry always decorated with bronze, a typical feature of his production. This same decoration is visible when it accompanies the decorations of Chinese lacquers or Martin varnish in the Far Eastern taste that Criaerd uses. A series of small chests of drawers is thus made in polychrome lacquer and gold with its decoration of rocaille bronzes. Less characteristic than his chests of drawers, the cabinetmaker makes as an accessory flat desks, sloping desks, small tables or even dressing tables, simpler, decorated with crosspiece marquetry or plain veneers. When his wife died in 1767, Mathieu Criaerd decided to end his business and handed over his factory to his second son, Sébastien Mathieu, who limited himself to simple trading.

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