Louis Majorelle Two-Tiered Fruitwood Marquetry Table
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$25,000
This French Art Nouveau two-tiered table by Louis Majorelle features fruitwood marquetry of the highest detail and delicacy. The piece is further adorned with cast bronze handles and is replete with a removable glass top. The table's scenery evokes both the lush exotics of Morocco and the nostalgic hills of Louis Majorelle's native France. While the top tier captures the wispy delicacy of faux jasmine, the bottom tier is decorated with blossoming buds of apple blossoms.
Artist: Louis Majorelle
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 31.75" height, 35.25" width, 23" depth
Materials: Fruitwood, Glass, Bronze
Signed: “L. Majorelle”
Literature: Similar table pictured in Majorelle - Nancy: décorations d'intérieurs: meubles, teintures, bronzes, ferronneries (the 1906 Majorelle catalogue), p. 51; Similar table also pictured in The Paris Salons, 1895-1910, Volume III: Furniture, by Alastair Duncan, Antique Collectors' Club, Publishers, p. 382 (Side tables, Exposition Universelle 1900); Similar table also pictured in Louis Majorelle, Master of Art Nouveau Design, by Alastair Duncan, Harry N. Abrams, New York, Publishers, p. 58
Artist: Louis Majorelle
Circa: 1900
Dimensions: 31.75" height, 35.25" width, 23" depth
Materials: Fruitwood, Glass, Bronze
Signed: “L. Majorelle”
Literature: Similar table pictured in Majorelle - Nancy: décorations d'intérieurs: meubles, teintures, bronzes, ferronneries (the 1906 Majorelle catalogue), p. 51; Similar table also pictured in The Paris Salons, 1895-1910, Volume III: Furniture, by Alastair Duncan, Antique Collectors' Club, Publishers, p. 382 (Side tables, Exposition Universelle 1900); Similar table also pictured in Louis Majorelle, Master of Art Nouveau Design, by Alastair Duncan, Harry N. Abrams, New York, Publishers, p. 58
The top tier of this table is decorated with faux jasmine. Louis Majorelle's son, Jacques Majorelle, grew faux jasmine, a plant native to South America, in his eponymous Moroccan garden, the Jardin Majorelle.
The top tier of this table is decorated with faux jasmine. Louis Majorelle's son, Jacques Majorelle, grew faux jasmine, a plant native to South America, in his eponymous Moroccan garden, the Jardin Majorelle.
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