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拍品專文
Claude-Charles Saunier, maître in 1752. Designed in the restrained 'Etruscan' taste of the 1770s, this commode was undoubtedly commissioned by a marchand-mercier such as Dominique Daguerre, who would have sub-contracted the vernis martin panel to a specialist vernisseur. Marchands- merciers enjoyed a monopoly on the importation of all non-perishable goods from the Orient, and merchants such as Thomas-Joachim Hébert and Lazare Duvaux were among the first to promote the fashion for mounting furniture with lacquer and vernis Martin panels in the 1740s and 1750s.
Whilst the flush flute-inlaid tapering legs are also seen in the oeuvre of Adam Weisweiler, the strong linearity of design is perhaps more reminiscent of Claude-Charles Saunier. Saunier, like Weisweiler, worked extensively for Daguerre, particularly with lacquer furniture such as the suite supplied to Lord Spencer for Spencer House, London (P. Thornton and J. Hardy, 'The Spencer Furniture at Althorp', Apollo, October 1968). A more elaborate two-door commode of similar character by Saunier forms part of the Jack and Belle Linsky Collection at the Metropolitan Museum, New York (P. de Montebello et al., The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, New York, 1984, no.138).
Whilst the flush flute-inlaid tapering legs are also seen in the oeuvre of Adam Weisweiler, the strong linearity of design is perhaps more reminiscent of Claude-Charles Saunier. Saunier, like Weisweiler, worked extensively for Daguerre, particularly with lacquer furniture such as the suite supplied to Lord Spencer for Spencer House, London (P. Thornton and J. Hardy, 'The Spencer Furniture at Althorp', Apollo, October 1968). A more elaborate two-door commode of similar character by Saunier forms part of the Jack and Belle Linsky Collection at the Metropolitan Museum, New York (P. de Montebello et al., The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, New York, 1984, no.138).