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Lot Essay
Pierre-Harry Mewesen, maître in 1766.
The characteristic floral trellis parquetry is seen on larger commodes of the same basic design by both Mewesen and Martin Carlin (maître in 1766), including the commode sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 13 October 1973, lot 153. This would perhaps suggest that they were working for the same marchand-mercier, of whom the most likely contender is Adrien Faizelot-Delorme (maître in 1748), whose stamp appears alongside Mewesen's on the coromandel lacquer commode sold from Longleat, Christie's London, 13 June 2002, lot 395.
A closely related commode in the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, is illustrated in M. I. Pereira Coutinho, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, 18th Century French Furniture, Lisbon, 1999, pp. 205-207 (Inventory number 126).
The characteristic floral trellis parquetry is seen on larger commodes of the same basic design by both Mewesen and Martin Carlin (maître in 1766), including the commode sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 13 October 1973, lot 153. This would perhaps suggest that they were working for the same marchand-mercier, of whom the most likely contender is Adrien Faizelot-Delorme (maître in 1748), whose stamp appears alongside Mewesen's on the coromandel lacquer commode sold from Longleat, Christie's London, 13 June 2002, lot 395.
A closely related commode in the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, is illustrated in M. I. Pereira Coutinho, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, 18th Century French Furniture, Lisbon, 1999, pp. 205-207 (Inventory number 126).