Table

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Table

Creator

André-Charles Boulle

French Artist · 1642–1732

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Christened by his contemporaries as "the most skillful artisan in Paris," André-Charles Boulle's name is synonymous with the practice of veneering furniture with marquetry of tortoiseshell, pewter, and brass. Although he did not invent the technique, Boulle was its greatest practitioner and lent his name to its common name: boulle work. Boulle also specialized in floral marquetry in both stained a

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Marquetry of extraordinary quality in wood and in tortoiseshell, brass, horn, and pewter decorates the top of this table. A band of brass surrounds a large central oval of tortoiseshell, and naturalistic flowers in wood marquetry frame the table's outer surface. Peonies, daffodils, tulips, hyacinths, and ranunculus can all be identified. The flowers are composed of small pieces of wood veneer that were assembled and then scorched with hot sand to create subtle gradations of shadow. Originally, the table would have been more vividly colored; light exposure has bleached the wood marquetry and faded the blue paint underneath the framing areas of horn to gray. Very few pieces of furniture are veneered with two types of marquetry. A single person seems to have made all of them, including this table, as they include many comparable motifs. For example, four small birds on the top of the table are very similar to four birds found on the drawer fronts of the large *Cabinet on a Stand* in the Museum's collection. André-Charles Boulle, a royal cabinetmaker working at the Louvre, may have designed and executed these pieces.

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https://data.getty.edu/museum/collection/person/609695df-fd8e-4807-83c0-5d50d48696b9
Artist/Maker
André-Charles Boulle
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https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103SDA
Date
about 1680–1685
Medium
Oak veneered with marquetry tortoise shell, pewter, brass, ebony, horn, ivory, boxwood, cherry, natural and stained sycamore, pear, thuya, satinwood, cedar, beech and amaranth; gilt-bronze mounts
Culture
French
Object Type
Furniture

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Object ID
0a19b903-538f-4f1d-a2ae-a4706da8e7f9
Object Type
Furniture
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Creator
André-Charles Boulle
  • Getty Museum field “Artist/Maker” · copied as is
Culture
French
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Medium
Oak veneered with marquetry tortoise shell, pewter, brass, ebony, horn, ivory, boxwood, cherry, natural and stained sycamore, pear, thuya, satinwood, cedar, beech and amaranth; gilt-bronze mounts
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Department
Decorative Arts
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Credit Line
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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Date
about 1680–1685
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Begin Year
1680
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End Year
1685
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