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Lot Essay
Louis-Magdeleine Pluvinet, maître in 1775.
Established in his own atelier in 1778, Pluvinet's career was extremely brief, as he died in 1783, placing this console firmly in the period 1775-80. Principally a menuisier en siège, Pluvinet realised at least one other console table, similarly ornamented with garlands of flowers, which was advertised by Partridge in Connoisseur, May-June 1963. For specialist sculpteur or carving, Pluvinet probably sub-contracted to Le Guay, to whom he owed the considerable sum of 1,000 livres on his death (P. Lemonnier, 'Pluvinet, Menuisiers, deux dynasties de maes menuisiers en sièges', L'Estampille, April 1993, p.67).
Established in his own atelier in 1778, Pluvinet's career was extremely brief, as he died in 1783, placing this console firmly in the period 1775-80. Principally a menuisier en siège, Pluvinet realised at least one other console table, similarly ornamented with garlands of flowers, which was advertised by Partridge in Connoisseur, May-June 1963. For specialist sculpteur or carving, Pluvinet probably sub-contracted to Le Guay, to whom he owed the considerable sum of 1,000 livres on his death (P. Lemonnier, 'Pluvinet, Menuisiers, deux dynasties de maes menuisiers en sièges', L'Estampille, April 1993, p.67).