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Lot Essay
Joseph Gegenbach dit Canabas, maître in 1766.
This elegant gueridon with remarkable swiveling tiers is inspired by English prototypes and reflects the goût anglais popularized by Canabas. Generally specializing in small pieces of mahogany furniture with particularly well-chosen veneers, most surviving examples are sober in design and without ormolu mounts, however he did indeed use mounts in his oeuvre. At the sale of his stock after his death, notices for the sale advertise '...tables à coulisse et à patins, tables de nuit, à cylindre, consoles, toilettes d'homme et de femme, chiffonnières, fauteuils de bureau et autres objets, pour la plupart en acajou massif, ornés de cuivre et dans le meilleur goût (P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 146). A very similar serviteur muet by Canabas with ormolu galleries is illustrated in Kjellberg, op. cit., p. 145, pl. B.
This elegant gueridon with remarkable swiveling tiers is inspired by English prototypes and reflects the goût anglais popularized by Canabas. Generally specializing in small pieces of mahogany furniture with particularly well-chosen veneers, most surviving examples are sober in design and without ormolu mounts, however he did indeed use mounts in his oeuvre. At the sale of his stock after his death, notices for the sale advertise '...tables à coulisse et à patins, tables de nuit, à cylindre, consoles, toilettes d'homme et de femme, chiffonnières, fauteuils de bureau et autres objets, pour la plupart en acajou massif, ornés de cuivre et dans le meilleur goût (P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 146). A very similar serviteur muet by Canabas with ormolu galleries is illustrated in Kjellberg, op. cit., p. 145, pl. B.