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

CIRCA 1775, STAMPED C.C. SAUNIER JME

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CONSOLE DESSERTE
Circa 1775, stamped C.C. SAUNIER JME
The shaped splayed rectangular bardiglio marble top with pierced balustraded three-quarter gallery above a drapery-cast cornice and panelled frieze mounted with pierced interlaced strapwork and foliage, the frieze drawer flanked by hinged corner drawers, all mahogany-lined, on fluted column uprights headed with berried vines and joined by a galleried bardiglio marble undertier with mille-raies panelled frieze, on turned tapering fluted legs with ormolu caps
36in. (91.5cm.) high, 56in. (142cm.) wide, 20in. (51.5cm.) deep

拍品专文

Claude-Charles Saunier, matre in 1752.

This commode-servante reflects the influence of the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre, who specialised in supplying objets de luxe to the French Court and, after the Revolution, particularly to the English nobility. Established in the rue St. Honor, in the 1780's Daguerre opened a shop in Piccadilly, London to supply George, Prince of Wales and his circle. A closely related pair of consoles-desserte, also by Saunier, was supplied by Daguerre to Earl Spencer for Spencer House, London. Now at Althorp, they were described in Daguerre's invoice of 31 May 1791 as:- Deux Consoles en Bois d'acajou avec tablettes de marbre entre les Pieds, garni de frisse mouleur et autres Bronzes dor d'or moulu, les Dessus en marbre Blanc 960 ...1,920 livres (F.J.B. Watson, Louis XVI Furniture, London, 1960, no.145, pp.134-5, fig.145).