BY ALEXANDRE CHEVRIÉ, PARIS, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

This acajou mouchete console desserte by Alexandre Chevrié (fl. 1878-94) is inspired by the 1780s production of the ébéniste Jean-Henri Riesener (d.1806), who often incorporated ormolu mounts by Pierre Gouthière (d.1813); the ormolu floral garlands, foliate sprays, and husk pendants on the supports of the present example regularly feature in Riesener's oeuvre. Chevrié was an ébéniste of high quality, participating in the 1878 and 1889 Exposition Universelles winning a silver medal at the latter. In 1889, A. Picard commended Chevrié as 'un artiste, un chercheur qui trouve souvent et qui sait appliquer ses connaissances techniques à l'industrie du meuble. Parmi les pièces les plus intéressantes de son exposition, nous rappellerons sa grande vitrine trés savamment composée (style Directoire), son guéridon en citronnier et sa petite console dorée'(D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIX eme siècle, Paris, 1989, p.126). Chevrié is recorded at 11 rue Portefoin, Paris from 1878 until 1886. A member of the jury for numerous exhibitions, in 1894 he received the medal of the légion d'honneur. Although the work of Chevrié is meticulously recorded in Ledoux-Lebard (op.cit., pp.126-127), it is rarely seen on the market. Recent stamped furniture includes a kingwood, bois satiné and vernis martin commode sold Christie's London, 23 September 2010, lot 53 (£17,500) and a bureau à cylindre sold Sotheby's New York, 19 April 2007, lot 140 ($19,200).