118:, "serpentine" in shape) while entries for other pieces revealed their Louis XVI character, such as a table with legs "a gaine avec des Canelures", that is, with straight, fluted tapering legs. Most of the refined furniture bearing his stamp is in Louis XV style, employing crossbanded veneers of tropical woods rather than marquetry, and with sensitively-integrated gilt-bronze mounts that betoken close collaboration with the
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88:, who, rather than the cabinetmaker himself, was in a position to purchase Japanese screens and cabinets, have them disassembled and, once the wooden support of the lacquer surfaces had been planed down, applied as costly veneer panels. Other
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James Parker in Park and
Dauterman 1967:139-41: cat. no.24, a small writing desk stamped by Joseph, mounted with Sèvres plaques, ca 1770; other similar writing tables are noted.
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The inventory of his workshop and stock in trade taken after his death following a long illness gives a snapshot of his current style; one of the appraisers was the
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in 1767, enabling him to skirt certain requirements of the Paris guild under royal privilege as well as a stiff entrance fee. He used the stamp
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François
Reizell and lodged in his house, rue Traversière, in February 1767, as Joseph Baumhauer .
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The James A. de
Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor: Furniture Clocks and Gilt Bronzes II
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Decorative Art from the Samuel H. Kress
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Excerpts of the inventory are briefly interpreted by G. de
Bellaigue 1974:864.
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who made them, rather than purchases of stock mounts on the wholesale market.
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at the time of his death. Furniture stamped by
Baumhauer that is mounted with
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emblematic of his royal appointment. Such stamps, like the long-mysterious
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Bellaigue (Bellaigue 1974:863) tentatively identifies three
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About 1745 he married Reine Chicot, of a family of
Parisian
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20:French, Paris and Sèvres; Desk; Woodwork-Furniture
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180:James Parker and Carl Christian Dauterman,
219:Parker, in Parker and Dauterman 1964:139.
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241:among the creditors at Joseph's death.
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27:(died 22 March 1772) was a prominent
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40:François Reizell, he was appointed
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161:Les Ébénistes du XVIII siècle
159:Comte de Salverte (Salverte,
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42:ébéniste privilegié du Roi
266:French furniture makers
193:Geoffrey de Bellaigue,
163:1927) first identified
96:and Charles Darnault.
78:Simon-Philippe Poirier
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94:Thomas-Joachim HĂ©bert
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120:fondeurs-ciseleurs
90:marchands-merciers
61:marchands-merciers
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128:menuisiers
116:contournée
64:, such as
239:bronziers
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169:ébéniste
101:ébéniste
55:B.V.R.B.
46:♣JOSEPH♣
38:ébéniste
33:ébéniste
29:Parisian
199:liasse
165:Joseph
108:livres
70:livres
135:Notes
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