BY PIERRE GARNIER

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY DEMI-LUNE CONSOLES DESSERTES
By Pierre Garnier
Each with breakfront white marble top, above a central drawer and two hinged side drawers mounted with berried foliate sprays alternating with fluted motifs within a beaded border, with tooled brass plaque above turned tapering legs with brass mounted fluting, the undertier with pierced gallery and tooled ribbed frieze mount, on tapering turned toupie feet and turned sabots, one console stamped 'P. GARNIER' and '...RNIER', the other stamped twice 'P. GARNIER'
35¼ in. (89.5 cm.) high; 49½ in. (126 cm.) wide; 18½ in. (47 cm.) deep (2)

Special notice

No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Sale room notice

Please note these consoles are not an exact pair. There are minor differences in construction, one console has been slightly reduced in size, while the other is possibly modified. The stamps are possibly spurious.

Lot Essay

Pierre Garnier, maître in 1742.

This elegant pair of consoles dessertes, a furniture type developed in the Louis XVI period for the display of porcelain in a salle à manger, demonstrate Garnier's refined ébénisterie skills. Very few examples of this type are known by him, which were more frequently executed by a slightly younger group of ébénistes which include Adam Weisweiler (maître in 1778), Roger van der Cruse, known as Lacroix (maître in 1755) and particularly Gaspard Schneider (maître in 1786).

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