A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE AND AMARANTH SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT

STAMPED THREE TIMES 'C.C. SAUNIER' AND TWICE 'JME', CIRCA 1775, REMOUNTED

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE AND AMARANTH SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
STAMPED THREE TIMES 'C.C. SAUNIER' AND TWICE 'JME', CIRCA 1775, REMOUNTED
The shaped and molded liver marble top above a lappeted band and a frieze-drawer with Vitruvian scroll, above the panelled fall-front enclosing to the reverse a green leather-lined writing-surface and a fitted fully veneered interior with four compartments, eight drawers and a concealed compartment, above two conformingly decorated doors enclosing one shelf, the angles headed by a foliate and volute mount above fluting and the bracket feet with a lappeted and fluted stepped sabot, stamped twice to the top of back and once to the upper part of the left back upright, the interior drawers with replacements to linings, interior of doors to lower section reveneered
58 in. (147 cm.) high, 43½ in. (110 cm.) wide, 17 in. (43 cm.) deep

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Claude-Charles Saunier, maître in 1752.

CLAUDE-CHARLES SAUNIER
Descended from a family of ébénistes, Claude-Charles Saunier (1735 - 1807) started his career in the workshop of his father, Jean-Charles. Located in the rue Faubourg Saint-Antoine, the premises had originally been occupied by his grandfather, Charles and Claude-Charles inherited them upon his father's death in 1765 when he finally registered his maîtrise with the guild. Initially working in the Louis XV style he soon adopted the neo-classical designs of the Transitional and Louis XVI periods that he appears to have favoured, and for which he is now renowned. Saunier is known to have repeatedly worked with the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre, supplying furniture to Lord Spencer at Althorp in 1790 and two commodes to the Royal garde-meuble in 1786 - 1787.

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