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Lot Essay
Joseph Stockel, maître in 1775.
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. Honoré, in the 1780's Daguerre opened a shop in Piccadilly, London to supply George, Prince of Wales and his circle. A related pair of consoles-desserte by Claude-Charles Saunier (maître in 1752), 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 doré d'or moulu, les Dessus en marbre Blanc à 960 ...1,920 livres (F.J.B. Watson, Louis XVI Furniture, London, 1960, no.145, pp.134-5, fig.145).
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. Honoré, in the 1780's Daguerre opened a shop in Piccadilly, London to supply George, Prince of Wales and his circle. A related pair of consoles-desserte by Claude-Charles Saunier (maître in 1752), 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 doré d'or moulu, les Dessus en marbre Blanc à 960 ...1,920 livres (F.J.B. Watson, Louis XVI Furniture, London, 1960, no.145, pp.134-5, fig.145).