OF LATE LOUIS XVI STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

The design of these tricoteuses is copied from well-known 18th Century examples probably conceived by a marchand-mercier and made by a number of ébénistes including one by Martin Carlin illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 160, that which was supplied in 1788 to the cabinet intérieur of Marie-Antoinette at Saint-Cloud by Jean-Henri Riesener and now in the Nissim de Camondo Museum, Paris, and one stamped by Bernard Molitor in the Museum fr Kunsthandwerk, Frankfurt (U. Leben, Bernard Molitor', Exhibition Catalogue, Luxembourg, 1995, p. 18, fig. 4).