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PUPITER WRITING TABLE BASED ON A MODEL BY ADAM WEISWEILER, F…
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PUPITER WRITING TABLE BASED ON A MODEL BY ADAM WEISWEILER, F…
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Estimate €10,000 - €20,000
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PUPITER WRITING TABLE BASED ON A MODEL BY ADAM WEISWEILER, FOR THE CABINET INTÉRIEUR DE MARIE-ANTOINETTE AT THE CHÂTEAU DE SAINT CLOUD, LOUIS XVI STYLE, LATE 19th CENTURY
Rectangular, all sides; in ebony, blued steel, ormolu, Japanese lacquer and mother-of-pearl. The belt opens to three drawers with a central recess decorated with plates framed with guilloché reserves, decorated with winged sphinxes terminating in foliate foliage, holding in the centre a radiating medallion with a woman's mask, shouldered with garlands of flowers. The uprights are in the form of caryatids with the bust of a draped woman joined by a brace centred on a basket with openwork latticework; the tapered legs have twisted canals; the desk top is embellished in the centre with a lacustrian landscape with pagodas and plants surrounded by a chequered frieze, with reserves on either side with a background of spiral motifs, aventurine lacquer and foliage, surrounded by an openwork gallery.
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A LOUIS XVI STYLE LATE 19TH CENTURY WRITING DESK FROM A DESIGN BY ADAM WEISWEILER, FOR MARIE-ANTOINETTE'S PRIVATE STUDY AT THE CHÂTEAU DE SAINT-CLOUD
73 x 80 x 46 CM - 28,7 x 31,5 x 18,1 IN.
To be compared with the table, delivered to Versailles in 1784, inventoried at Saint-Cloud in 1789, small writing table with desk in the interior cabinet of the Château de Saint Cloud, circa 1784, Weisweiler, Adam, Atelier de Rémond, François, Place of creation: Paris, OA 5509, Louvre, Département des Objets d'art du Moyen Age, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes du Louvre.
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