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拍品專文
Pierre-Antoine Foullet, maître in 1765.
The highly unusual marquetry monograms almost cetrainly commemorate a marriage.
With its distinctive mounts, exceptional marquetry - which retains so much of its original engraving - and strength of design, this table à jeux is characteristic of the oeuvre of the ébéniste Pierre-Antoine Foullet. Son of the ébéniste Antoine Foullet (maître in 1749; flourished circa 1710-1775), who appears almost exclusively to have specialised in the construction of clock-cases, Pierre-Antoine established his workshops in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, before moving to the rue de Charonne in 1770.
Foullet's precarious financial situation throws some light upon his affairs, and as early as 1767 he owed 5,232 livres to the marchand-ébéniste Léonard Boudin, for whom he presumably worked. This debt to Boudin was still outstanding on the death of his father in 1775, when Pierre-Antoine was forced to rescind all rights to his fathers' estate. Boudin did not, however, have sole control of Foullet's production, as the Fournisseur du roi Gilles Joubert is known to have supplied several pieces by Foullet for the comte d'Artois' appartements at Versailles in 1773.
THE MARQUETEUR
Although specialist marqueteurs are known to have supplied both ébénistes and marchands-merciers throughout the 18th Century, Pierre-Antoine Foullet is thought to have executed the vast majority of pictorial marquetry panels in his own atelier. This hypothesis is underlined by the fact that the marquetry panel of the sécretaire in the Wallace Collection (F299) is engraved foulet (P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture, II, London, 1996, no. 194, pp. 954-964).
The highly unusual marquetry monograms almost cetrainly commemorate a marriage.
With its distinctive mounts, exceptional marquetry - which retains so much of its original engraving - and strength of design, this table à jeux is characteristic of the oeuvre of the ébéniste Pierre-Antoine Foullet. Son of the ébéniste Antoine Foullet (maître in 1749; flourished circa 1710-1775), who appears almost exclusively to have specialised in the construction of clock-cases, Pierre-Antoine established his workshops in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, before moving to the rue de Charonne in 1770.
Foullet's precarious financial situation throws some light upon his affairs, and as early as 1767 he owed 5,232 livres to the marchand-ébéniste Léonard Boudin, for whom he presumably worked. This debt to Boudin was still outstanding on the death of his father in 1775, when Pierre-Antoine was forced to rescind all rights to his fathers' estate. Boudin did not, however, have sole control of Foullet's production, as the Fournisseur du roi Gilles Joubert is known to have supplied several pieces by Foullet for the comte d'Artois' appartements at Versailles in 1773.
THE MARQUETEUR
Although specialist marqueteurs are known to have supplied both ébénistes and marchands-merciers throughout the 18th Century, Pierre-Antoine Foullet is thought to have executed the vast majority of pictorial marquetry panels in his own atelier. This hypothesis is underlined by the fact that the marquetry panel of the sécretaire in the Wallace Collection (F299) is engraved foulet (P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture, II, London, 1996, no. 194, pp. 954-964).