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Lot Essay
Adam Weisweiler, maître in 1778.
This guéridon epitomises the fashionable Louis XVI style popularised by the marchands-merciers Dominique Daguerre and Martin-Eloi Lignereux. Often inset with Wedgwood jasperware plaques, this type of table found favour at Court both at home and abroad, Madame du Barry giving a closely related table to the duc de Brissac in 1791. Delivered on 31 December 1791, it was described as:- Livraison de Daguerre Lignereux, du 31 décembre 1791: Une petite table en bois d'acajou de racine avec camas et glace dessus les pieds en double bamboue en bronze doré d'or moulu.
It is very likely that Dominique Daguerre, the celebrated marchand-mercier, was responsible for the design and marketing of this model of table. The combination of Wedgwood jasperware plaques, which continued the tradition of furniture mounted with Sèvres porcelain plaques pioneered by his predecessor Simon-Philippe Poirier in the 1760's, further underlines this, as Daguerre was Wedgwood's representative in Paris from 1787.
A drawing of this model of table is preserved in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. The latter is annotated 'les bronze argentés S. Kawrovsky' and this inscription refers to comte Skavronsky, the Russian Ambassador to Naples (see: P. Lemonnier, Weisweiler, Paris, 1983, pp. 97, 90).
This table is particularly unusual for this model both because of its large diameter and the fact that the concave-sided stretcher and feet are entirely of ormolu, rather than veneered. This again reinforces the supposition that a marchand-mercier must have been responsible for the production of this model.
A related table is in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris (illustrated in situ in the Grand Bureau in N. Gasc et al., 'The Nissim de Camondo Museum', Catalogue, p.8), whilst a similar but smaller table, made of thuya and with Wedgwood cameos inset into the top was sold by the Executors of the late Lady Magnus-Allcroft, Christie's London, 10 June 1993, lot 26.
This guéridon epitomises the fashionable Louis XVI style popularised by the marchands-merciers Dominique Daguerre and Martin-Eloi Lignereux. Often inset with Wedgwood jasperware plaques, this type of table found favour at Court both at home and abroad, Madame du Barry giving a closely related table to the duc de Brissac in 1791. Delivered on 31 December 1791, it was described as:- Livraison de Daguerre Lignereux, du 31 décembre 1791: Une petite table en bois d'acajou de racine avec camas et glace dessus les pieds en double bamboue en bronze doré d'or moulu.
It is very likely that Dominique Daguerre, the celebrated marchand-mercier, was responsible for the design and marketing of this model of table. The combination of Wedgwood jasperware plaques, which continued the tradition of furniture mounted with Sèvres porcelain plaques pioneered by his predecessor Simon-Philippe Poirier in the 1760's, further underlines this, as Daguerre was Wedgwood's representative in Paris from 1787.
A drawing of this model of table is preserved in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris. The latter is annotated 'les bronze argentés S. Kawrovsky' and this inscription refers to comte Skavronsky, the Russian Ambassador to Naples (see: P. Lemonnier, Weisweiler, Paris, 1983, pp. 97, 90).
This table is particularly unusual for this model both because of its large diameter and the fact that the concave-sided stretcher and feet are entirely of ormolu, rather than veneered. This again reinforces the supposition that a marchand-mercier must have been responsible for the production of this model.
A related table is in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris (illustrated in situ in the Grand Bureau in N. Gasc et al., 'The Nissim de Camondo Museum', Catalogue, p.8), whilst a similar but smaller table, made of thuya and with Wedgwood cameos inset into the top was sold by the Executors of the late Lady Magnus-Allcroft, Christie's London, 10 June 1993, lot 26.