Writing Table Stamped Dautriche, 18th Century

Speckled Mahogany Writing Table, Stamped Jacques DAUTRICHE, 18th Century. It opens on the front with a Drawer serving as a Writing Desk with its top covered with its Leather and small compartments on the right side, one of which has a Secret Compartment. Its top and its It has two sliding trays on each side. (25.5 cm on each side) Its Main Top and its Two Pulls are covered with a Pretty Fawn-colored Leather, gilded with small Iron. It stands on 4 sheathed feet ending with small Gilded Bronze Clogs. It measures 77 cm in Length, and 128 cm with its 2 Pulls on each side. Its width is 49 CM and its height is 73 CM (60 CM under the headband. DAUTRICHE Jacques Van Oostenryk Jacques Van Oostenryk known as Dautriche. Received Master on May 24, 1765. Supplier to the crown under Louis XV. He made beautiful chests of drawers. Coming from the Netherlands, Jacques Van Oostenryk who called himself Dautriche, arrived in Paris around 1740 and began working as a free worker. He first settled on rue Traversiére then moved to rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine where he quickly acquired a great reputation and received numerous orders for the various houses of the king. Upon his death, his wife and son Thomas Jacques took over the management of his workshop. If Dautriche made some Louis XV furniture, he excelled above all in the Transition and Louis XVI style works in rosewood or mahogany veneer: stepped chests of drawers, secretaries, corner cabinets, the whole very structured, with harmonious lines. But the great fame of this cabinetmaker is above all due to his talents as a marquetry maker. He knew how to use with art the most diverse marquetry whether geometric patterns: diamonds, cubes, octagons arranged on large panels framed with bronze rods, or marquetry representing flowers and arabesques. We can also mention lacquer or varnish decorations of Chinese taste.