Christie’s is honored to announce the auction Dalva Brothers: Parisian Taste In New York to be offered on 2 April in New York. The family firm of Dalva Brothers has been a fixture in New York as the go-to source for the best in 18th century French furniture and decorative arts for the past eighty years and across three generations, selling to collectors and to museums including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Versailles and the Louvre. Dalva Brothers is renowned for holding one of the finest and deepest inventories of 18th century decorative arts in the world, and the auction will present approximately 250 lots including European furniture, Sèvres porcelain, Chinese works of art, clocks, and sculpture. A second sale will take place in Paris in November 2020.In collaboration with Christie’s Education, a four-part series of classes on the decorative arts, with lectures and handling sessions, will launch with the exhibition of the auction on March 27 at Christie’s Rockefeller Galleries.Leon Dalva remarks: “My mother always said that Dalva Brothers was collecting for collectors. While my family has been privileged to work with these objects from the Age of Enlightenment, this auction heralds a new chapter for Dalva Brothers. It is our wish that these works of art will bring happiness to their new owners just as they have to my family and our clients over the years.
An exciting and unique highlight is a Charles X birds eye maple, amaranth, colored strass and silver exhibition panel made for the Exposition des produits de l’industrie of 1827 (estimate: $150,000-300,000). This technical tour de force demonstrates the great interest in technology in the 1820s, with its avant-garde design made by the jewelry designer Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Laurent Douault-Wieland. The panel is densely inset with multi-colored panels made of strass, a form of rhinestone-like glass, with portrait medallions patriotically depicting the Bourbon monarchs from Louis XII to Charles X. The sale is particularly strong in works of royal and aristocratic provenance, led by a Sèvres porcelain gold-ground teapot and cover (thière ‘bouillotte’)circa 1779, likely made for Marie Antoinette or Louis XVI (estimate: $30,000-50,000), an intricately inlaid table à la Bourgogne with spring-loaded rising compartment, made for Madame Infante, the daughter of Louis XV for the ducal Palace at Colorno (estimate $100,000-200,000), and a Consulat ormolu-mounted mahogany and Angoulême porcelain clock, circa 1800, supplied to the Château de Saint-Leu for Napoleon’s brother, Louis Bonaparte and his wife Hortense de Beauharnais, later the King and Queen of the Netherlands (estimate: $60,000-100,000).
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