
BVRB's Commodes
Marie-Laure Buku Pongo(Author)
D Giles Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 21. October 2025
Book
Hardback
72 pages
978-1-917273-12-1 (ISBN)
Description
These two cabinets, stamped BVRB, may well be the last pieces of furniture made by the celebrated Parisian cabinetmaker Bernard van Risenburgh II just before he retired in 1764 and sold his workshop to his son, Bernard van Risenburgh III, who finished them. The cabinets feature panels of black-and-gold Japanese lacquer of exceptionally high quality taken from a seventeenth-century Japanese cabinet, chest, or screen. Beginning in the 1730s, the older van Risenburgh worked almost exclusively with the influential marchands-merciers or merchants of luxury goods, who provided the cabinetmaker with the rare and costly Oriental lacquers and sometimes with the design for the furniture on which to mount them.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
40 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 196 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-917273-12-1 (9781917273121)
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Persons
Marie-Laure Buku Pongo is assistant curator of Decorative Arts, The Frick Collection, New York.
William Christie is a conductor and harpsichordist. A specialist in the baroque and classical repertoire he is the founder of the ensemble Les Arts Florissants.
Content
Director's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Van Risenburgh, A Harpsichord, and a Henhouse by William Christie
Van Risenburgh II'S Commodes by Marie-Laure Buku Pongo
Bibliography
Index
Image Credits
Acknowledgments
Van Risenburgh, A Harpsichord, and a Henhouse by William Christie
Van Risenburgh II'S Commodes by Marie-Laure Buku Pongo
Bibliography
Index
Image Credits