Classic Design: Furniture, Clocks, Silver & Ceramics
Classic Design: Furniture, Clocks, Silver & Ceramics
Property from an Esteemed European Collection
Lot closes
November 12, 02:48 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
Current Bid
300 GBP
5 Bids
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Description
rectangular in shape, the lower section bordered by an openwork gallery, with two side drawers, one dummy drawer, and one side with the winding hole, the upper adjustable section, with one slide on either side, and a pull-out at the back, further raised into an adjustable reading surface with a detachable ledge, on four tapered legs with brass fluting, stamped "FEUERSTEIN" and "JME"
78cm high, 85cm wide, 53cm deep (closed); 30 3/8in., 33 1/2in., 20 7/8in.
Sotheby’s Monaco, Meubles et Objets d'Art provenant de l'Hôtel Lambert et du Château de Ferrières appartenant au Baron de Redé et au Baron Guy de Rothschild; 26th May 1975, lot 281;
By repute in the collection of Galerie Georges Hagnauer.
Philippe Jullian, Le style Louis XVI, Baschet & Cie Editeurs, 1977, p.71.
The table à tronchin – or architect’s table – was a popular furniture model in the Late Louis XVI and Directoire periods. It takes its name from the Genevan physician Théodore Tronchin whose patients included Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Voltaire and Rousseau. He advocated for a desk that could be used both sitting and standing as a way of maintaining posture and preventing bone and joint issues. The mechanisms for this desk would have been operated by inserting a crank into the apron and turning until it reached the desired height.
Joseph Feurstein (1733-1809) was born in Brgenzerwald in Tyrol. His workshop was established on the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine where it remained until the beginning of the Revolution. He was made maître ébéniste in 1767. The gold mounts for Feurstein’s pieces were generally made by the doreur Habert.[1] This lot is typical of Feurstein’s Louis XVI style, with rigidity and simplicity of the architectural forms of antiquity.
[1] Pierre Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIe Siècle : Dictionnaire des ébénistes et des menuisiers, Paris, les éditions de l’amateur, 1998, 307.
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