The dresser-bombe with a pattern of wooden mosaic was created by an unknown author, presumably in the 18th century. The dresser is decorated with an ornament of thinly sliced wood of different species: they differed in natural color and texture, so they turned out to be multicolored patterns.
Dresser - bombe
Creation period
18th century.
Technique
Wood, bronze, veneer, cutting, casting, marquetry
Collection
Exhibition
2
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Dresser - bombe
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There are bronze plates on top of the wood on the dresser. The handles and the sides are decorated with plant pattern. In the middle of each drawer there are figurines of small putti. Putto is derived from the Latin word putus, a little boy. Sometimes they are also called Cupids or amoretto - diminutive from amor, love. Putti combined the features of Christian angels and Ancient Eroses. The winged kids were often to be found in the Renaissance art, baroque and rococo.
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First dressers appeared in France during the epoch of Louis XIV. Furniture of that time was referred to as the Boulle style, it was distinguished by the splendor of forms and, as Nikolay Sobolev wrote in his book Styles in the Furniture, was meant to give the impression of cold greatness.
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Dresser 1723. Master Andre-Charles Boulle. The Hermitage Collection.
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Boulle is the surname of a whole generation of cabinetmakers who worked for the royal court. Their products were simple in shape, but looked splendid due to the rich decoration. Sometimes the masters placed so many ornaments of brass, tin, turtle or silver that the wooden base was lost behind them. In order to prevent the decorations from crumbling, they were often placed in special frames of cast bronze. Such monumental furniture glorified the surname of Boulle. Foreign masters imitated it for a long time.
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When Jean Berain started working at the court, the style of palace furniture began to change. Berain dealt with designing interiors, celebrations and theatrical productions for the king. It was he who developed the public taste for curved lines and light forms. Besides that, it was Jean Berain who presented engravings with the first dressers in 1700.
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During the reign of Louis XV dressers became very popular. In the first half of the 18th century they took on the potbelly form and became known as bombe, from the French bombé - bulging. Such dressers served as a decoration of the interior.
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Yaroslavl Museum of Fine Arts
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Dresser - bombe
Creation period
18th century.
Technique
Wood, bronze, veneer, cutting, casting, marquetry
Collection
Exhibition
2
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