A Louis XV kingwood and parquetry table liseuse stamped Migeon, mid 18th century

UK: Greenford Park WarehouseRestricted Species

Lot Closed

April 11, 04:02 PM GMT

Estimate

7,000 - 10,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

with a moulded serpentine rectangular top with a racheted gilt-tooled black leather-lined writing-surface and a rising green silk firescreen flanked by a panel inlaid with cube parquetry, the frieze concealing a pull-out gilt-tooled black leather writing slide with a drawer in each side, the right drawer fitted for writing implements including two later brass containers, on cabriole legs headed by a foliate and shell mount and terminating in C-scroll and rockwork sabots and brass castors, stamped 'MIGEON' three times, with later gilt-bronze mounts throughout; restorations to the veneers

72cm high, 82cm wide, 56cm deep; 28 3/8 in., 32 1/4 in., 22 1/8 in.

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Purchased from Partridge Fine Arts, London.

Partridge Fine Arts, Summer Exhibition, 1983, cat. 46 (illustrated).

Comparative Literature:

Sophie Mouquin, Pierre IV Migeon, Paris, 2001, pp 108-118.

Pierre Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris,1998, p. 578, for a table liseuse in kingwood with a rising screen and writing slope by Migeon.

This table is typical of the work of the talented ébéniste Pierre II Migeon, now known to be Pierre IV Migeon (1696-1758) (see lot 106), who specialized in such meubles à transformation. He delivered several examples to the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne such as the table à pupitre for the Dauphin in 1747. Only the finest pieces bear gilt-bronze mounts or have a firescreen. The geometrical parquetry is one of the signatures of the Migeon. Another table volante by Migeon with cube parquetry veneers can be found at the Getty Museum, California A table similar to the Getty’s was sold at Christie’s in 1997 (Christie’s New York, 21st May 1997, lot 633, ($112,500).