Oriental woodwork from the dining room of Maurice... Lot 38

Oriental woodwork from the dining room of Maurice Rheims (1910-2003) installed by Marc du Plantier in the 1960s, rue du Faubourg saint-Honoré. A set of woodwork of various origins and periods, combined in the same room to compose an oriental decor that adorned the dining room of the auctioneer and writer Maurice Rheims, elected to the Académie française in 1976. Condition : wear, small accidents and small missing parts. This set includes : - Large Indian wall in teak wood, originally finely carved and painted, decorated with nine panels with niches, the three in the central vertical bay opening with two leaves. Each arcade is carved with rows of floral rosettes and the jambs with foliage. Cruciform ironwork between each panel. (Traces of polychromy. Some restorations and missing crosspieces). H : 195 cm - W : 149 cm - D : 12 cm - Moroccan door in cedar and pine wood, carved and painted. The poly-lobed arched door and the frame are composed of rectangular panels set in jambs decorated with large metal nails. In the center of the frame, three panels of moucharabieh and on the reverse a polychrome starry rose. Fitted with rings and old fittings. Lock and three modern hinges. (Traces of polychromy, mainly on one side). Total height : 209,5 cm - W : 107,5 cm - Leaf : 135 x 73,5 cm - Ottoman woodwork elements with moucharabieh decoration. Set of elements of pine wood, composed of "moucharabiehs". The moucharabieh is a decorative technique consisting of balusters or coils of turned wood linked together to obtain a network effect, thus forming openwork partitions, and commonly used in Ottoman Egypt until the late nineteenth-early twentieth century. Marc du Plantier used the technique of the moucharabieh claustra of the rue du Belvédère where he had installed an "Arab room" in 1957. The Louvre Museum has several panels of moucharabiehs from palaces and houses in Cairo dating from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century (see Elise Anglade, Musée du Louvre. Catalog des boiseries de la section islamique, Paris, 1988, pp. 126-144): Large double panel surrounded by a metal frame. Each clerestory element is composed of two parts, with two moucharabieh windows surmounted by an openwork panel with a grid pattern. Total height : 148.5 cm - Width : 213 cm - Depth : 7 cm - Width of each panel : 106 and 104.5 cm Two clerestory panels, each composed of a central panel decorated with a square grid moucharabieh and a diamond-shaped border, in their original jambs H : 112 and 113,5 cm - W : 74 cm - D : 7 and 8 cm Two large rectangular partitions, each made of an assembly of moucharabieh panels with various patterns, inserted in a wooden upright, one with three moucharabieh windows, two in the middle and one in the upper part; the other composed of two leaves of different width and different assembly, one with a window. Total H : 251 cm - W : 113 cm - D : 6 cm Two five-sided overhanging windows with moucharabieh decoration on each side, the four uprights terminated at each end by balls (three balls missing on one, worm holes, wear, accidents). H : 86,5 and 82 cm - W : 38,2 and 37,5 cm - D : 30 and 29 cm Long base whose front is divided into three parts, each adorned with a rectangular moucharabieh panel on the front. H : 87 cm - W : 203 cm - D : 41 cm Opening frame composed of an upper lintel and inserted jambs made of moucharabieh panels inserted in later jambs. Total height: 250.5 cm - Total width: 120 cm - Opening: 171 x 79 cm Large vertical jambs, each formed of five moucharabieh panels of different motifs, inserted in a later wooden structure (wear, small accidents and small missing parts). Total height : 251 and 249,5 cm W : 31 and 32 cm D : 13 and 3 cm Bibliography : - Axelle de Broglie, Page à Page, chez Maurice Rheims, in Connaissance des Arts, January 1972, pp. 42-43 for an in situ view. - Yves Badetz, Marc du Plantier, Norma, Paris, 2010, pp. 386-388 for an in situ view . A detailed condition report and exact dimensions of each element or part of an element are available upon request.