BY HENRY DASSON, PARIS, DATED 1881

Famed cabinet-maker Henry Dasson (d. 1896) is recorded as having worked in Paris at 106, rue Vieille-du-Temple. In 1870 Dasson purchased the firm of the ébéniste Charles Winckelsen upon his death, and began producing an impressive range of pieces for the Paris Expositions from 1878 until 1895. Dasson specialized in reproducing a wide range of high quality furniture and objets d'art in the style of Louis XIV, XV and XVI, often directly copying known works of these periods. This elegant guéridon, designed in the goût Weisweiler, epitomizes the supreme quality of Dasson's finest work. A comparable example, dated 1867 and formerly in the collection of Pierre Lecoules, is illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le mobilier français du XIX siècle, Paris, 1984, p. 148. Another example, dated 1884, sold at Christie's, London, 29 March 2007, lot 96 (£216,000).