AFTER THE MODEL BY ADAM WEISWEILER, THE MOUNTS AND CARCASS EARLY 20TH CENTURY, THE MALACHITE LATER

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A Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted malachite-veneered writing-table
After the model by Adam Weisweiler, The mounts and carcass early 20th Century, The malachite later
The rectangular three-quarter galleried top above a panelled frieze decorated with ribbon-hung garlands, set to the front with a spring-loaded secret central drawer decorated with a Classical roundel flanked by winged putti, the reverse with a similar panel, supported on four basket-bearing caryatids with tapering uprights, joined by a shaped stretcher centred by a pierced basket, on short tapering legs
30 7/8 in. (78.5 cm.) high; 28 in. (71.2 cm.) wide; 15¾ in. (40 cm.) deep

Literature

Illustrated in A. M. Massinelli, The Gilbert Collection, Hardstones, London, 2000, p. 102, cat. no. 32.

Lot Essay

The present table is based on the celebrated model by Adam Weisweiler (d.1820) supplied for Marie-Antoinette at the château de Saint-Cloud (illustrated in A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers: The Art of the Ebéniste from Louis XIV to the Revolution, Paris, 1989, p. 389). During the last quarter of the 19th century, the model was very much in fashion and was widely copied by Parisian cabinet-makers, in both exact and simplified versions.

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