Lot Essay
Etienne Avril, maître in 1774.
Avril, who was among those commissioned to supply furniture to Marie-Antoinette at the château de Saint-Cloud, closed his workshop shortly before the revolution to specialise in the trading of furniture. The sale of his extensive stock after his death was broken up into three sessions of several days each.
An unusual and related games toilet-table by Avril was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 3 March 1978, lot 141, while a further closely related table with similarly ribbed edges to the angles and nearly identical legs, by Avril was sold anonymously, Ader, Picard, Tajan, Paris, 15 June 1979, lot 132.
Avril, who was among those commissioned to supply furniture to Marie-Antoinette at the château de Saint-Cloud, closed his workshop shortly before the revolution to specialise in the trading of furniture. The sale of his extensive stock after his death was broken up into three sessions of several days each.
An unusual and related games toilet-table by Avril was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 3 March 1978, lot 141, while a further closely related table with similarly ribbed edges to the angles and nearly identical legs, by Avril was sold anonymously, Ader, Picard, Tajan, Paris, 15 June 1979, lot 132.