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Lot Essay
This attractive music-stand was conceived in the fashionable goût anglais of the 1770s. Just like mahogany tables à thé, the inspiration for the tripod base, and, in this case, also the top which could be raised on a shaft, came from mid-18th century English prototypes. One of the foremost exponents of this style was Joseph Gengebach, known as Canabas, who specialized in such useful, portable pieces of furniture in rich superior mahogany.
A series of letters exchanged between the marquis de Marigny, Directeur Général des Bâtiments, Jardins, Arts, Académies et manufactures Royales from 1751-1773 and the ébéniste Pierre Garnier document this taste for furniture a l'anglaise among sophisticated Parisian patrons. Marigny mentions, for example, a toilette d'homme a l'angloise which he wishes to have embellished, and a pair of 'tables de piquet' which he purchased in London and wished to have copied by Garnier (see S. Eriksen, 'Some Letters from the Marquis de Marigny to his Cabinet-maker Pierre Garnier', Furniture History Society Journal 1972, p. 78-81).
An almost identical pupitre à crémaillé is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1998, p. 145.
A series of letters exchanged between the marquis de Marigny, Directeur Général des Bâtiments, Jardins, Arts, Académies et manufactures Royales from 1751-1773 and the ébéniste Pierre Garnier document this taste for furniture a l'anglaise among sophisticated Parisian patrons. Marigny mentions, for example, a toilette d'homme a l'angloise which he wishes to have embellished, and a pair of 'tables de piquet' which he purchased in London and wished to have copied by Garnier (see S. Eriksen, 'Some Letters from the Marquis de Marigny to his Cabinet-maker Pierre Garnier', Furniture History Society Journal 1972, p. 78-81).
An almost identical pupitre à crémaillé is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1998, p. 145.