Small Louis XV Period Desk Stamped Dubois

Small desk with rosewood and kingwood marquetry, featuring two drawers in the frieze and standing on four cabriole legs. Leather writing surface with gilt-tooled border. Stamped Dubois and bearing the JME guild mark. Louis XV period.

One of the greatest cabinetmakers of the Louis XV period, Jacques Dubois was admitted as a master cabinetmaker in 1742.

His production falls into two categories: classical Louis XV style furniture of exceptionally fine craftsmanship, such as this small desk, and pieces that can be considered masterpieces.

The latter are generally decorated with Far Eastern lacquer, or with varnishes imitating such lacquer, or feature richly inlaid veneers, all enhanced by elaborate chased and gilt bronze mounts.

Examples of his furniture can be found in the collections of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the Louvre, the Musée Carnavalet, the Wallace Collection and Wallace Manor, the Getty Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon.