Mathieu Befort meuble à hauteur d'appuis Paris, circa 1860

ébène, gilt-bronze, gilt-galvanized metal and portor marble top, three cupboard doors opening to one shelf, one gilt-bronze mount has been removed to reveal the stamp B.J. from the bronze master model.

D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIX Siècle, pp. 47-49

C. Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, p. 32

P. Lemonnier, Weisweiler, p. 39, for a comparative drawing

The present cabinet, although unarguably 19th century, interprets the Louis XVI style for the contemporary buyer. On the basis of the use of expensive ebony veneer, the rectangular shape, centered by a cupboard en ressaut decorated with a classical medallion and flanked in the corners by female terms, emulates the style of Adam Weisweiler. A similar model can be seen in a preparatory drawing by Weisweiler, dated 7 September 1784, in the Folliot fils collection, op. cit. Lemonnier p. 39.