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Lot Essay
Gaspard or Caspar Schneider, maître in 1786.
With their elegant, clean lines, refined ebony and boxwood 'shadows' to and tapering herm legs, these consoles dessertes clearly reveal Schneider's debt to Martin Carlin (maître in 1766). Schneider, born in Augsburg, is recorded working in the rue de Faubourg Saint-Antoine in the 1780s and in 1785 married Carlin's widow. From the inventory taken of Carlin's workshop after his death, it is known that Schneider inherited a valuable amount of his stock and continued to supply the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre (Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 419). These conoles dessertes were in all probability also commissioned by Daguerre.
With their elegant, clean lines, refined ebony and boxwood 'shadows' to and tapering herm legs, these consoles dessertes clearly reveal Schneider's debt to Martin Carlin (maître in 1766). Schneider, born in Augsburg, is recorded working in the rue de Faubourg Saint-Antoine in the 1780s and in 1785 married Carlin's widow. From the inventory taken of Carlin's workshop after his death, it is known that Schneider inherited a valuable amount of his stock and continued to supply the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre (Pradère, Les Ebénistes Français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 419). These conoles dessertes were in all probability also commissioned by Daguerre.