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Lot Essay
Bernard Molitor, maître in 1787.
This elegant gueridon, with its sober, unadorned mahogany in the goût anglais of the late 1780s, is a beautiful example of Bernard Molitor’s work at the beginning of his career and is virtually identical to a table stamped ‘B. Molitor’, which is illustrated in U. Leben, ‘Bernard Molitor’, Luxembourg, 1995, no. 21, p. 137 and p. 212. Both tables have a tilt-top mechanism, a ring-turned shaft above curved legs and caps with a distinctive pointed motif. This type of leg appears in the engravings published by George Hepplewhite (1788) and Thomas Sheraton (1803), and it probable Molitor was familiar with their designs as he almost certainly accompanied the celebrated Parisian marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre to London.
This elegant gueridon, with its sober, unadorned mahogany in the goût anglais of the late 1780s, is a beautiful example of Bernard Molitor’s work at the beginning of his career and is virtually identical to a table stamped ‘B. Molitor’, which is illustrated in U. Leben, ‘Bernard Molitor’, Luxembourg, 1995, no. 21, p. 137 and p. 212. Both tables have a tilt-top mechanism, a ring-turned shaft above curved legs and caps with a distinctive pointed motif. This type of leg appears in the engravings published by George Hepplewhite (1788) and Thomas Sheraton (1803), and it probable Molitor was familiar with their designs as he almost certainly accompanied the celebrated Parisian marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre to London.