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拍品專文
Pierre Garnier, maître in 1742.
This functional and charming small table represents the early work of Pierre Garnier and embodies the quality and refinement exhibited in his more well-known works in the Neoclassical style such as the celebrated group of furniture supplied to the Marquis de Marigny beginning in 1767.
Related tables with specialized mechanical actions were no doubt ultimately the creative invention of the marchands-merciers and were also made by by other ébénistes, such as Roger Vandercruse, known as Lacroix. They include one sold anonymously, Christie's, Paris, 13 April 2010, lot 132, a parquetry example with a slightly different mechanism sold anonymously at Christie’s Paris 16 December 2002, lot 132 and a third with pictorial marquetry and the same mechanism sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 235.
Alastair Bradley Martin (1915-2010) was a grandson of the steel magnate Henry Phipps, business partner to Andrew Carnegie. Martin’s passion for collecting became his life’s mission as he searched for objects that were of exceptional quality from a vast array of cultures and disciplines. Martin derived enormous pleasure in sharing his objects with the public to give other collectors the opportunity to train their eyes. He was a donor to the Brooklyn Museum of Art beginning in 1947 and was an Honorary Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in addition to serving on the Museum's Acquisitions committee.
This functional and charming small table represents the early work of Pierre Garnier and embodies the quality and refinement exhibited in his more well-known works in the Neoclassical style such as the celebrated group of furniture supplied to the Marquis de Marigny beginning in 1767.
Related tables with specialized mechanical actions were no doubt ultimately the creative invention of the marchands-merciers and were also made by by other ébénistes, such as Roger Vandercruse, known as Lacroix. They include one sold anonymously, Christie's, Paris, 13 April 2010, lot 132, a parquetry example with a slightly different mechanism sold anonymously at Christie’s Paris 16 December 2002, lot 132 and a third with pictorial marquetry and the same mechanism sold anonymously, Christie's, New York, 24 May 2000, lot 235.
Alastair Bradley Martin (1915-2010) was a grandson of the steel magnate Henry Phipps, business partner to Andrew Carnegie. Martin’s passion for collecting became his life’s mission as he searched for objects that were of exceptional quality from a vast array of cultures and disciplines. Martin derived enormous pleasure in sharing his objects with the public to give other collectors the opportunity to train their eyes. He was a donor to the Brooklyn Museum of Art beginning in 1947 and was an Honorary Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in addition to serving on the Museum's Acquisitions committee.