BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY ENCOIGNURE
BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
With grey-veined white marble top and shelf, the cut corners headed by acanthus mounts, the apron centred by a foliate scroll, bracket feet, stamped 'J. H. RIESENER'
36 ¼ in. (92 cm.) high; 24 in. (61 cm.) wide; 15 ¼ in. (39 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

Jean-Henri Riesener, maître in 1768.
A set of six encoignures of this model was delivered by Jean-Henri Riesener in 1784 for the garde-robe of the petits appartements of Queen Marie-Antoinette at the Palais des Tuileries, costing 768 livres each. An encoignure from this set, which bears the inventory number 3365/6, was sold from the collection of Ambassador and Mrs Raymond Guest, Christie’s Paris, 22 April 2013, lot 45. The present encoignure, although not bearing any Royal inventory numbers, might have been part of this commission, two others similar pieces of this model are recorded in Parisian private collections.

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