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Lot Essay
Pierre-Harry Mewesen, maître in 1766.
The sophisticated octagonal parquetry decorating all sides of this table-a-ecrire is similar to examples found in Martin Carlin's (maître in 1766) oeuvre and can be found on the pair commodes of similarly architectural form as the present example, though of much larger proportions in the Gulbenkian Museum (ill. A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, Paris 1989, p.363, fig 432), as well as on a related table-à-écrire, stamped by Mewesen, sold from the Collection of the Baron de Rédé, at Sotheby's, Monte Carlo, 26 May 1975, lot 284.
The sophisticated octagonal parquetry decorating all sides of this table-a-ecrire is similar to examples found in Martin Carlin's (maître in 1766) oeuvre and can be found on the pair commodes of similarly architectural form as the present example, though of much larger proportions in the Gulbenkian Museum (ill. A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, Paris 1989, p.363, fig 432), as well as on a related table-à-écrire, stamped by Mewesen, sold from the Collection of the Baron de Rédé, at Sotheby's, Monte Carlo, 26 May 1975, lot 284.