A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE AND CITRONNIER JARDINIERE
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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE AND CITRONNIER JARDINIERE

CIRCA 1785, IN THE MANNER OF ADAM WEISWEILER

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A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE AND CITRONNIER JARDINIERE
CIRCA 1785, IN THE MANNER OF ADAM WEISWEILER
The oval top with removable oak liner with pierced gallery and fitted with a later lead liner, above a frieze with framed panels, on fluted legs joined by an interlaced stretcher centred by an oval platform, on turned tapering feet, with a label 'Page 24 (Louis) XVI oval kingwood jardiniere', with the inscription 'AVE 1' and with a label inscribed '439', previously further mounted, the quarter veneer panels to the frieze with some restorations but apparently original, the undertier with metal strenghthening support to underside
31¾ in. (81 cm.) high; 20¼ in. (51 cm.) wide; 15¼ in. (38 cm.) deep
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The distinctive pierced and interlaced stretcher of this jardinière relates to the documented oeuvre of Adam Weisweiler. Patricia Lemonnier discusses the characteristic patterns of stretchers Weisweiler employed in Weisweiler, Paris, 1983, pp.116-7, and this pattern appears on p.116, although it has been made perpendicular to the legs.

The use of these distinctive entretoises are almost always on works executed in collaboration with the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre. The heir to Simon-Philippe Poirier's atelier, Dominique Daguerre specialised in supplying objets de luxe to the French Court and, increasingly during the 1780s, to the English nobility. Based in the rue St. Honoré, in the 1780s he even opened a shop in Piccadilly, London to supply the Prince of Wales and his circle. Related, although more elaborate stretchers can be seen on the Sèvres porcelain-topped table by Weisweiler and Daguerre, sold at Christie's London, 12 December 2002, lot 118.

Mlle. Lemonier, op. cit., p.190, records a 'jardinière en citronnier' stamped by Weisweiler.