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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dec 9, 2015 | Piasa | Paris | Bijoux, Tableaux et Dessins Anciens, Mobilier et Objets d’Art | 189 | $****** - ****** | Rare secretary forming a fireplace screen with sliding leaf, in sycamore, ebony and satin. |
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100 x 52 x 25 cm (39.37 x 20.47 x 9.84 in)
ebony and satin
Stamp of Adam Weisweiler and JMe
Rare secretary forming a fireplace screen with sliding leaf, in sycamore, ebony and satin. The secretary in latticework marquetry opening with a flap revealing two drawers and two compartments is attached to the screen by two hooks at the back; the rack screen with sliding leaf resting on feet with skates. Stamp of Adam Weisweiler and JMe
(under the screen crossbar)
Louis XVI period, circa 1785-1790
(restorations)
h 100 × L 52 × D 25 cm
If the ebony and sycamore marquetry decoration is found on a certain number of French pieces of furniture made around 1785-1790, this type of secretary is very rare in its design at the end of the 18th century.
As early as the 1770s, the model of travel secretary opening with a flap in
slope and relying suspended by hooks
located at the back, sometimes called secretary
coach. However its combination with a
moving leaf fireplace screen of which we know
existence since the beginning of the 18th century seems
make it a unicum.
The marquetry of trellises or diamonds, is
found on a table with three stamped trays
of Weisweiler, accompanied by dots in the
four angles of the diamond (Wallace Collection,
London). An identical marquetry was also
used by Bernard Molitor on a trough table
illustrated in U. Leben, Molitor, London, 1992,
p.168; as well as on a writing table kept at
the Wallace Collection (F321).
