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Lot Essay
Conceived in the restrained neoclassical taste of the 1780s, the model for this elegant console désserte developed under Louis XVI as a serving table, or for the display of porcelain or silver in the salle à manger. They were frequently executed by Roger Van der Cruse dit Lacroix (maître in 1749) and fellow ébénistes such as Claude-Charles Saunier (maître in 1752) and Adam Weisweiler (maître in 1778).
Roger van der Cruse was born in 1728, the son of François van der Cruse, an ouvrier libre. His sisters Françoise-Marguerite, Marie-Marguerite and Anne-Michelle married maître-ébénistes, namely Jean-François Oeben (and secondly Jean-Henri Riesener), Simon Oeben and Simon Guillaume, while he himself married the daughter of the ébéniste Mathieu Progain. Following Lacroix's election as maître-ébéniste in 1755, he took over his father's atelier in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, opposite the rue Saint-Nicolas, where he had lived for all his life. His possessions were auctioned after his death in 1799 (C. Roinet, Roger Vandercruse dit Lacroix, Paris, 2000, pp. 15 - 23).
Roger van der Cruse was born in 1728, the son of François van der Cruse, an ouvrier libre. His sisters Françoise-Marguerite, Marie-Marguerite and Anne-Michelle married maître-ébénistes, namely Jean-François Oeben (and secondly Jean-Henri Riesener), Simon Oeben and Simon Guillaume, while he himself married the daughter of the ébéniste Mathieu Progain. Following Lacroix's election as maître-ébéniste in 1755, he took over his father's atelier in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, opposite the rue Saint-Nicolas, where he had lived for all his life. His possessions were auctioned after his death in 1799 (C. Roinet, Roger Vandercruse dit Lacroix, Paris, 2000, pp. 15 - 23).