LATE 19TH CENTURY

The design of this tricoteuse is copied from well-known 18th Century examples probably conceived by a marchand-mercier and made by a number of ébénistes such as that by Martin Carlin illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 160, another example was supplied in 1788 to the cabinet intérieur of Marie-Antoinette at Saint-Cloud by Jean-Henri Riesener and which is now in the Nissim de Camondo Museum, Paris (N. Gasc and G. Mabille, The Nissim de Camondo Museum, Paris, 1991, p. 38) and one stamped by Bernard Molitor in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt (U. Leben, 'Bernard Molitor', exhibition catalogue, Luxembourg, 1995, p. 18, fig. 4).