LOUIS XVI PERIOD CORNER CABINET Attributed to Roger Vandercruse dit Lacroix or R.V.L.C In stained lemon and holly wood veneer with inlaid decoration of barbels set in a grid, chased and gilt bronze ornamentation, restored Spanish brocatelle marble top, the front opening with a drawer decorated with sunflowers set in a frieze of interlacing and a door, the inside veneered in satinwood and amaranth, the apron with satyr mascaron motif flanked by foliage scrolls; An en suite corner cabinet in the same style. H. 92 cm (36 ¼ in.) l. 70 cm (27 ½ in.) P. 41 cm (16 in.) (2) Origin : Galerie Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York ; Acquired from the latter by Baron Erich Von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1894-1987); Habsburg-Feldman sale Geneva, 10 May 1988, lot 81; Sale in Versailles, Me Martin - Me Chausselat, 4 April 1993, lot 114; Galerie Panderis, Nice; Acquired from the latter; Then by descent to the current owner. A Louis XVI gilt-bronze mounted, bois citronnier, holly, satinwood and amaranth encoignure, attributed to Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix or R.V.L.C, together with a Louis XVI style encoignure of the same model Although not stamped, this corner unit can be attributed to Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix or RVLC, one of the most brilliant cabinet-makers active in the second half of the 18th century. In fact, its decoration, combining a characteristic marquetry of barbs set in a trellis on a background of stained holly wood, can be considered one of the signatures of this famous cabinetmaker. Count François de Salverte supports the tradition that Madame du Barry owned several pieces of furniture of this type, on the basis of a memorandum by the marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier, kept among Madame du Barry's papers in the Seine-et-Oise archives. On 4 September 1770, Poirier sold Madame du Barry, for her "Garderobbe" in Versailles, "Une armoire d'Encoignure en bois de rapport fond blanc à mosaïque Bleu & petits Barbeaux, & richement garnie en bronze d'o moulu 380[l]" (cfr. G. Wildenstein, Simon-Philippe Poirier, Fournisseur de Madame du Barry, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Vol. LX, 1962, p. 375). The same marquetry can be found on a number of signed or attributed pieces, such as : l The stamped writing table preserved at Waddesdon Manor (cfr. G. De Bellaigue, The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, 1974, Vol. II, p. 485); l The stamped cabinet secretary, also kept at Waddesdon Manor (see A. Pradère, Les Ébénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Révolution, Chêne, 1989, p. 289, fig. 317); l The unstamped table, sold in London in 1957 and illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe siècle, Les Éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 1989, p. 788, fig. C. ; l The stamped writing table, sold at Christie's Paris, 6 November 2015, lot 848; l The two stamped secretaries, from the former Hamilton Rice collection, then Dalva Brothers, sold at Christie's New York, 22 October 2020, lot 182. Our sideboards have an illustrious provenance. They come from the collections of Baron Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1894-1987), one of the five sons of Baron Maximilian von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1843-1940), considered the richest man in the German Empire. In 1925, Erich married Veronika, née Countess Henckel von Donnersmarck, and together with his wife became one of the leading figures among art collectors and high society in pre-war Berlin. In their property at 2 Tiergartenstrasse, he kept numerous paintings and objets d'art from the family inheritance, while developing a real passion for collecting from an early age. In true Rothschild style, he concentrated on 18th-century French decorative arts and furniture of the highest quality. The Baron and Baroness left Germany in 1931 and settled in California. His passion for the decorative arts continued unabated, as demonstrated by the purchase of this pair of corner pieces from the Rosenberg & Stiebel Gallery, which was active in New York from 1939.