A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CONSOLE (CONSOLE DESSERTE)

BY FIDELIS SCHEY, CIRCA 1780

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CONSOLE (CONSOLE DESSERTE)
BY FIDELIS SCHEY, CIRCA 1780
The demilune galleried white marble top above a central and two side frieze drawers over stop-fluted legs joined by a conforming stretcher, stamped twice F. SCHEY and once JME to rear right back
35 in. (89 cm.) high, 49¼ in. (125 cm.) wide, 20 in. (51 cm.) deep

Provenance

Poulain Lefur; Paris, 2 December 1996, lot 191.

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Lot Essay

Fidelis Schey, maître in 1788.

Born in the Duchy of Baden, Fidelys Schey was one of the many immigrant craftsmen who was established in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine and was patronized by the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne at the château de Fontainebleau. Schey worked from a shop in the rue Faubourg-Saint-Antoine in Paris with a saleroom adjacent, run by his wife. Schey worked almost exclusively with mahogany in the restrained Louis XVI 'Grecian' style, and delivered two tables a jeux in this style to Fontainebleau in 1786.

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