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Lot Essay
This same trophy mount was used by the bniste David Roentgen (matre in 1780) on the secrtaire abbatant almost certainly supplied to Catherine the Great and sold from the Russian Imperial Collections by R. Lepke, Berlin, 6-7 November 1928, lot 107. As Baulez has shown, Franois Rmond (1747-1812) cast mounts for both Roentgen's workshop, often utilizing compositions designed by the well-known academic sculptor, Louis-Simon Boizot (1743-1809) ('David Roentgen et Franois Rmond: Une Collaboration Majeure dans l'Historie du mobilier Europen,' L'Estampille/L'Objet d'Art, September 1996, pp. 96-118), as well as supplying them to Riesener (mitre in 1768) for pieces such as the Linsky commode in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. 1982, 60.81).
A pair of gilt-bronze furniture mounts closely related to the Alexander plaque are in the Wallace Collection and discussed in P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, vol. III, cat. no. 277 (F295-6). While no evidence exists to suggest that Riesener cast his own bronze mounts, models of these same trophy mounts were employed by his workshop as early as February 1783, when he supplied a pair of encoignures for the apartments of Marie- Antoinette at Versailles (op. cit., vol. II, cat. nos. 185-6 (F275-6).
A pair of gilt-bronze furniture mounts closely related to the Alexander plaque are in the Wallace Collection and discussed in P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Furniture, London, 1996, vol. III, cat. no. 277 (F295-6). While no evidence exists to suggest that Riesener cast his own bronze mounts, models of these same trophy mounts were employed by his workshop as early as February 1783, when he supplied a pair of encoignures for the apartments of Marie- Antoinette at Versailles (op. cit., vol. II, cat. nos. 185-6 (F275-6).