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a gilt-bronze mounted malachite veneered center table after THE MODEL BY ADAM WEISWEILER french, circa 1880
Estimate
25,000 - 30,000 USD
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Description
- height 29 3/4 in.; width 33 1/2 in.; depth 19 1/8 in.
- 75.5 cm; 85 cm; 48.5 cm
mahogany and oak carcass, one frieze drawer, the lock has been removed to reveal the stamp Duvivier/Paris/77 Fb St ANTOINE, one leg stamped LC on the underside. Malachite veneered at a later date.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Daniel Alcouffe, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Vol. I, Dijon, 1993, p. 289, no 97 for the original by Weisweiler.
Daniel Alcouffe, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Vol. I, Dijon, 1993, p. 289, no 97 for the original by Weisweiler.
Catalogue Note
This table is directly copied from an original model by Adam Weisweiler (1744-1820) supplied by him to the marchand-mercier Daguerre in 1784 for Marie-Antoinette's cabinet intérieur at the Château de Saint-Cloud. This table was copied by various 19th century makers faithfully reproducing the finesse of the gilt-bronzes. Empress Eugénie in 1865 acquired the original table from the Prince de Beauvau (d. 1864) and placed it in the salon bleu in the Tuileries where she gave audiences. The table is now in the Musée du Louvre and illustrated by D. Alcouffe, op. cit., p. 289, no. 97. The mounts on the original table were chased and gilded by the doreur François Rémond.