Nicolas-Alexandre LAPIE received master's degree in Paris on - Lot 308

Nicolas-Alexandre LAPIE received master's degree in Paris on August 17, 1764, Exceptional rosewood-veneered chest of drawers with a marquetry of bottomless cubes in satinwood, amaranth and green-stained wood. It opens on the front with two drawers and rests on four slightly cambered legs. It features canted uprights decorated with simulated fluting, the rear uprights elegantly recessed. Beautiful marquetry of bottomless cubes set in reserves framed by stained wood fillets with Greek-style corners. Beautiful ornamentation in chased and gilded bronze, including falls, lamp bases, sabots, draw rings and key escutcheons. Breche d'Alep molded marble top. Stamped 'LAPIE' and 'poinçon de Jurande'. Transitional Louis XV - Louis XVI period, circa 1760. Height Height : 84.5 cm. Width : 128 cm. Depth : 57 cm. Minor restorations. Lapie Nicolas Alexandre, son of Nicolas Lapie, an earthenware merchant in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, was born around 1730; he registered his letters of mastery with the Châtelet in Paris in 1764; and less than eleven years later, on February 8, 1775, he died at his home in the rue de Charenton. Lapie had signed his works with the mark N-A-LAPIE, an ink imprint of which can be seen on the minutes of the seals affixed to his home after his death. The same document mentions, among the pieces he left in progress, some twenty small tables known as chiffonnières. Over the course of his eleven-year career, he produced numerous "tables chiffonnières" and other Louis XV, Transition and Louis XVI furniture in the classical style, covered with sheet veneer or marquetry. His goods were sold at public auction on March 2.