Classic Design: Furniture, Clocks, Silver & Ceramics
Classic Design: Furniture, Clocks, Silver & Ceramics
Property from an Esteemed European Collection
Lot closes
November 12, 01:12 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Current Bid
1,500 GBP
10 Bids
No reserve
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Description
The black and white marble top above three frieze drawers, flanked on each side by one small frieze drawer and one door opening to one shelf, stamped twice C.KRIER
91cm high, 193cm wide, 65.5cm deep; 35 7/8in., 76in., 25 3/4in.
Galerie M. Segoura, Paris, 1996.
Cabinetmaker Charles Krier was born in 1742. He was apprenticed in the Faubourg de Saint Antoine before setting up his workshop on the rue de Bac. He was made a maître ébéniste in 1774.[1]
This demi-lune commode is typical of Krier’s Louis XVI style, veneered in mahogany with minimal adornment apart from the gilt bronze moulding. The form of the escutcheons – a roundel topped with an elaborate bow and hanging garlands of leaves – are commonplace forms from the1770s and 1780s, with the design found on commodes and other furniture forms by a number of different bronziers working in Paris at the time.
A similar commode stamped A. Héricourt was sold Sotheby’s Zurich, 24th May 1982, lot 292. Likewise, another comparable model – though squatter in form – was sold Sotheby’s New York, 20th November 1993, lot 258.
[1] Pierre Kjellberg, Le mobilier Français du XVIIe Siècle, Paris, les éditions de l’amateur, 1998, 467.
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