BY JOSEPH-EMMANUEL ZWIENER, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A Louis XV style ormolu-mounted kingwood and Coromandel lacquer meuble d'appui
By Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener, Late 19th/early 20th century
Of bombé shape, the serpentine Brèche de Benou Jaune marble top above a panelled door depicting figures in a landscape, the sides with similar decorated panels, the angles each flanked by an espagnolette, on splayed legs with foliate-cast sabots; the carcass stamped to the top ZWIENER
47¾ in. (121.5 cm.) high; 47½ in. (120 cm.) wide; 17¾ in. (45 cm.) deep

Literature

D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le mobilier français du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1984, p. 645 (a similar cabinet illustrated).

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Lot Essay

Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener was born in Herdon, Germany, in 1849. He moved to Paris and established his workshop at 12, rue de la Roquette and is recorded as working from that address between 1880 and 1895. He produced the very finest furniture replicating articles from the Garde-Meuble National of France. His work appears to be mainly in the Louis XV rococo manner, inset with fine marquetry, Vernis Martin panels and encrusted with gilt-bronze mounts, all to the highest standards of manufacture. Exhibiting at the Exposition Universelle, Paris in 1889, he was given a gold medal. The jury reported "dès ses débuts à une Exposition universelle, [il] s'est mis au premier rang par la richesse, la hardiesse et le fini de ses meubles incrustés de bronze et fort habilement marquetés".

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