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Jean-Jacques Werner (1791-1849), born in Switzerland and first based in Paris in the rue Saint-Dominique-Saint-Germain in 1812.
This console table, with its hollowed plinth and acanthus-headed scrolling supports terminating in lion-paw feet, is virtually identical to an example stamped by Werner, which was executed circa 1815-1820 (sold at Drouot, Paris, 26 June 1974). These tables are of identical form and share most of the characteristic ormolu mounts, such as the acanthus-clasps and the roundels flanking the legs, which are firm grounds to attribute the present example to this ébéniste. (D.Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ébénistes du XIXe Siècle, Paris, 1984, p. 633)
The design for this type of console probably derives from a sarcophagus-ended table illustrated in C. Percier and P. Fontaine's Recueil de decorations interieurs, 1801, PL XV.
See illustration
This console table, with its hollowed plinth and acanthus-headed scrolling supports terminating in lion-paw feet, is virtually identical to an example stamped by Werner, which was executed circa 1815-1820 (sold at Drouot, Paris, 26 June 1974). These tables are of identical form and share most of the characteristic ormolu mounts, such as the acanthus-clasps and the roundels flanking the legs, which are firm grounds to attribute the present example to this ébéniste. (D.Ledoux-Lebard, Les Ébénistes du XIXe Siècle, Paris, 1984, p. 633)
The design for this type of console probably derives from a sarcophagus-ended table illustrated in C. Percier and P. Fontaine's Recueil de decorations interieurs, 1801, PL XV.
See illustration