A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MOUNTED MAHOGANY CONSOLE DESSERTE

Description:

in the manner of Claude-Charles Saunier, circa 1780
90 x 127 x 40 cm
The shaped and moulded white marble top above a central frieze drawer mounted with foliate channels in encadrements flanked by a sprung drawer to each side similarly mounted, on square stop fluted legs and toupie feet joint by a conforming undertear. Rest.
Descending from a family of ébénistes, Saunier received his maîtrise in 1752 and worked in the atelier of his father, Jean-Charles, in 1757, which was located in the rue Faubourg Saint-Antoine. Claude-Charles briefly continued to work in the Louis XV style but then rapidly adopted the Neoclassic designs of the transitional and Louis XVI periods for which he is now renowned.