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Lot Essay
Charles Topino, maître in 1773.
Charles Topino (d. 1803), of the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine specialized in light, delicate furniture often enriched with marquetry panels of flowers or trompe l'oeil style still lives inspired by borders of Chinese screens. He was employed as a specialist marqueteur by several marchands-merciers as well as his fellow ébènistes including Pioniez, Nicolas Petit and Lonard Boudin. A virtually identical table à écrire by Topino is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1989, p.845, fig. B.
Charles Topino (d. 1803), of the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine specialized in light, delicate furniture often enriched with marquetry panels of flowers or trompe l'oeil style still lives inspired by borders of Chinese screens. He was employed as a specialist marqueteur by several marchands-merciers as well as his fellow ébènistes including Pioniez, Nicolas Petit and Lonard Boudin. A virtually identical table à écrire by Topino is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1989, p.845, fig. B.