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Lot Essay
François Gaspard Teuné, maître in 1766.
This elegant armoire is stamped by François Gaspard Teuné, who trained in the workshop of his uncle Jean Popsel (maître in 1755), and with whom he undoubtedly collaborated on the manufacture of pieces for the marchand-ébéniste Pierre II Migeon (maître c.1725).
The present armoire is embellished with an elaborate parquetry design incorporating quatrefoil flowers in trelliswork among lozenges, which relates to the prototypes conceived by Jean-François Oeben, circa 1760-63, such as the superb floral marquetry and cube parquetry commode from the Bensimon collection, illustrated in R. Stratmann-Döhler, Jean-François Oeben, Paris, 2002, p.53.
Among the related pieces featuring the same lozenge parquetry, by or attributed to Teuné, a bureau-à-cylindre was sold from the Di Portanova collection, Christie's, New York, 20 October 2000, lot 58, a bureau plat was sold, Christie's, Paris, 26 November 2005, lot 233, and more recently, a superb meuble d'appui was sold at Christie's, London, 5 July 2007, lot 85.
This elegant armoire is stamped by François Gaspard Teuné, who trained in the workshop of his uncle Jean Popsel (maître in 1755), and with whom he undoubtedly collaborated on the manufacture of pieces for the marchand-ébéniste Pierre II Migeon (maître c.1725).
The present armoire is embellished with an elaborate parquetry design incorporating quatrefoil flowers in trelliswork among lozenges, which relates to the prototypes conceived by Jean-François Oeben, circa 1760-63, such as the superb floral marquetry and cube parquetry commode from the Bensimon collection, illustrated in R. Stratmann-Döhler, Jean-François Oeben, Paris, 2002, p.53.
Among the related pieces featuring the same lozenge parquetry, by or attributed to Teuné, a bureau-à-cylindre was sold from the Di Portanova collection, Christie's, New York, 20 October 2000, lot 58, a bureau plat was sold, Christie's, Paris, 26 November 2005, lot 233, and more recently, a superb meuble d'appui was sold at Christie's, London, 5 July 2007, lot 85.