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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE

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2019年11月13日开拍 / 2019年11月13日截止委托

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拍品描述: A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE BY GUILLAUME BENEMAN, CIRCA 1790 The breakfront rectangular moulded white marble top above one narrow and one hinged articulated panelled door, each with three faux drawers above ormolu moulded edges, the rounded corners with bretté panels above fluted columns, raised on toupie feet, stamped 'G. BENEMAN' four times, originally with handles and further escucheons 39 ? in. (101 cm.) high; 75 7/8 in. (193.5 cm.) wide; 27 ? in. (70.5 cm.) deep Guillaume Beneman, ma?tre in 1785. This impressive commode à vantaux with superb ‘flamed’ mahogany and sober architectural lines characteristic of the end of the reign of Louis XVI is stamped by the Royal cabinet-maker Guillaume Beneman. Its scale, breakfront fa?ade, and mechanism à brisure (with hinged panels) relates to the commode delivered by the celebrated ébéniste on the orders of Jean Hauré in 1787 for Madame Thierry de Ville d'Avray's bedroom in the H?tel du Garde-Meuble and later sent to King Louis XVI's cabinet du Conseil at the Tuileries Palace on May 15, 1792, sold at Christie’s, New York, 21 October 1997, lot 282, now in the musée du Louvre (inv. num. OA5504). This type of commodes à brisure seems to have been developed firstly by Adam Weisweiler around 1785 who produced a group of similar pieces, either in mahogany or with Japanese lacquer panels, including the commode delivered to Daguerre for the cabinet intérieur of Louis XVI at Saint-Cloud in 1788. A closely related commode veneered in burr-yew, with identical fluted uprights stamped by Weisweiler was offered at Sotheby’s, Paris, 9 November 2012, lot 230, another related commode, stamped by Godefroy Dester who collaborated with Beneman and Weisweiler, was formerly in the collection of Princess Catherine de Cr?y, and sold at Christie’s, New York, 24 October 2017, lot 47. Interestingly, the present commode à vantaux was almost certainly en suite with another commode sold from the collection of Sir Fairfax Leighton Cartwright (1857-1928) at Christie’s, London 27 June 1968, lot 84. This commode, although with drawers fitted with handles and escutcheons, has an identical shape and measurements, the present commode was originally similarly mounted but the handles and escutcheons were probably removed when the pair was separated. GUILLAUME BENEMAN, SUCCESSOR TO RIESENER It is stamped by Guillaume Beneman. In 1785, this then relatively unknown ébéniste was chosen to succeed Jean-Henri Riesener (1734-1806) as main supplier to the Royal family, as part of a concentrated attempt to reduce court expenditure. Having previously worked in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, the Paris parish where free craftsmen were allowed to exercise their profession without interference from the guilds, Beneman swiftly became ma?tre-ébéniste in the very year 1785, the guild being forced by the police to waive all costs and duties, and in 1786 the court payed for the equipment of his workshop and hired a considerable number of assistants for him. Under these exceptional circumstances, Beneman was commissioned to modify and copy a number of pieces of furniture already in the possession of the King and his family, or bought on purpose to be adapted. He mainly worked under the artistic supervision of the sculptor Jean Hauré, gaining a very thorough understanding of the production of his predecessors, not only Riesener but other ébénistes as well. At the same time, he was acutely aware of the latest style propagated by the foremost marchand-mercier of the day, Dominique Daguerre, who in the late 1780s delivered many pieces of furniture to the court and with whose productions Beneman's work was often intended to harmonize (Alexandre Pradère, Les ébénistes fran?ais de Louis XVI à la Révolution, Paris, 1989, pp. 404-411).
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