BY CLAUDE OR JEAN-JOSEPH CHAPUIS

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY DRESSING-TABLE
By Claude or Jean-Joseph Chapuis
The rectangular top surmounted by a sliding and adjustable mirror, the uprights mounted with female busts and palmettes, above a fitted frieze drawer, one long and four short drawers, flanked by female herms, on block feet, stamped three times 'CHAPUIS', lacking candle branches
71 in. (180 cm.) high [30¼ in. (77 cm.) without mirror]; 37½ in. (95 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This elegant console table, which is stamped CHAPUIS, was either executed by the Parisian ébéniste Claude Chapuis (n.d.), who was active from 1797 until at least 1818, or by his celebrated Brussels counterpart Jean-Joseph Chapuis (1765-1864). Both employed a stamp without their initials, which complicates attribution. Jean-Joseph, famed for his mechanical designs, was undoubtedly the most successful of the two and supplied a wide variety of pieces to the Chateau de Laeken from 1806 onwards. (D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Francais du XIXe Siècle 1795-1889, Paris, 1989, pp. 118-121).

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