AN IMPORTANT LOUIS XVI ORMOLU MOUNTED AMARANTH AND SYCEMORE FRUITWOOD AND PARQUETRY TABLE DE CHEVET

Description:

Jean-Henri Riesener, Paris, circa 1780
95 x 51 x 35 cm
Inlaid overall with lozenge-shaped parquetry panels. The rectangular canted white marble top with pierced gallery surround above a secret frieze drawer and a pair of doors enclosing a plain interior on square tapering legs ending in acanthus cast sabots. Stamped twice J.H. RIESENER to the unterside. Marble top with slight crack and slightly spotted. Min. rest., minute wear to gilding.
Auction Christie's, London, 13. June 2002, Lot 262
Auction Sotheby's, Collection Mme. Djahanguir Riahi - Les Oeuvres Que J'ai Aimées, Paris, 6. July 2017, Lot 133.
Jean Henri Riesener (1734-1806), maître in 1768.
This table de chevet with refined combination of striking parquetry panels with finely chased ormolu mounts, is a superb example of Riesener’s later work. The architectural shape with ormolu
appears on a number of other pieces by this ébéniste delivered to the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne. A writing table with comparable parquetry and ormolu mounts, probably part of a suite of furniture Riesener delivered to Marie-Antoinette’s private apartments at the Tuileries in July 1784, is shown in the Royal collection RCIN 21209.