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Lot Essay
Guillaume Beneman, maître in 1785.
This elegant table à ecrire, embellished with golden satinwood and dark amaranth veneers, typifies the oeuvre of Beneman of the late 1780s, when he had replaced Jean-Henri Riesener as principal supplier of furniture to the Crown, a transition which took place in 1785-86. In 1787, Beneman supplied two writing-tables and a console to the Dauphin, which were executed in 'bois jaune' or 'noyer de Guadeloupe' (A. Pradère,French Furniture Makers, Paris, 1989, p. 410).
This elegant table à ecrire, embellished with golden satinwood and dark amaranth veneers, typifies the oeuvre of Beneman of the late 1780s, when he had replaced Jean-Henri Riesener as principal supplier of furniture to the Crown, a transition which took place in 1785-86. In 1787, Beneman supplied two writing-tables and a console to the Dauphin, which were executed in 'bois jaune' or 'noyer de Guadeloupe' (A. Pradère,French Furniture Makers, Paris, 1989, p. 410).