* ATTRIBUTED TO ADAM WEISWEILER (1744-1820) Received... Lot 90

* ATTRIBUTED TO ADAM WEISWEILER (1744-1820) Received master in 1778 EXCEPTIONAL AND IMPORTANT TWO-TOP SALON CONSOLE About 1785-1789. Mahogany, lemon tree and Wedgwood porcelain plates. H. 94 cm W. 213 cm D. 60 cm Some restorations, weldings and slight lacks to the gallery. Restorations of use. Wedgwood plates formerly damaged and glued back together. A few small marks on the marquetry of the upper shelf and a trace of heat at the bottom left. On the bronze gallery, three small missing balusters, one in the upper part and two in the lower part. It rests on four spinning top feet, decorated with simulated channels by inlays of lemon tree. The four amounts are fluted with gilded brass background, ringed with bronze. The two trays are plated with lemon tree with, in their middle, a vast mosaic mosaic of "diamond dots". The belt hiding three drawers opening to click, is decorated with a frieze of foliage of acanthus in bronze, separated by four small medallions of porcelain in soft paste. On the central drawer, slightly protruding, a rectangular porcelain plate in the same way in a mahogany mahogany frame. Three mirrors separated by a post in lemon wood, close the bottom. The upper shelf is lined with a bordered by a gilded brass gallery on four sides, and the lower one on three sides. Adam Weisweiler, of German origin, arrived in France in 1774. He died on June 15, 1820. His activity stopped in 1809 after the death of his wife. Weisweiler worked with the Mercier merchants who had a very wealthy clientele and with the court. It is one of the most famous, Dominique Daguerre, who will be his "broker". The latter signed a commercial agreement with Josiah Wedgwood, the name of the factory producing these famous porcelains. Our rectangular plate can be found in the N° 238 of the class n° 2 of the catalog under the title: the offering to peace", conceived in 1777. Dominique Daguerre was the only distributor of these decorative elements in France. A little later, Weisweiler will use to decorate some of his furniture, plates made by Sèvres in copy of those of Wedgwood. Would Riesener have bought this small table from Weisweiler to sell it to the furniture Pierre Verlet wonders, which makes possible the work of the two cabinetmakers on our the work of the two cabinetmakers on our console, as shown by some pieces of furniture bearing the two stamps. The exceptional character of this console lies in three points: 1. The realization of the tops in veneer and marquetry with a gallery The realization of the tops in veneer and marquetry with a closed gallery does not allow it to be used as a sideboard, nor as a console of vestibule. It is thus intended for a living room. 2. The width of 2m13 makes it the widest console table, realized by Weisweiler. The one presented in the Nissim de Camondo Museum is 23 cm smaller. (See "Le mobilier du Musée Nissim de Camondo" by Sylvie Legrand-Rossier). by Sylvie Legrand-Rossi, éditions Faton, 2012, page 130) 3. On each side of the mosaic, there is a diamond with dots that looks strangely to the game tokens of the eighteenth century, bone or mother of pearl. This console was it not planned for a gaming room, where one posed and, in the drawers with clicks, some games? Bibliography: - " Weisweiler " by Patricia Lemonnier, preface Maurice Ségoura, Monelle Hayot -Vilo art editions, 1983. The work proposes at the end of testes, the catalog which lists 232 pieces of furniture. The author specifies "that a little more than half of these pieces of furniture are stamped" then "It should be noted that this catalog represents a fairly small part of the part of the production of Weisweiler since in thirty-one years of years of activity, it is impossible that he has executed only 230 pieces of furniture". "Regarding his Louis XVI furniture, we have only a sample of the production of this workshop. sample of the production of this workshop. The mosaic of diamonds with dots: This piece of furniture presents the famous marquetry decoration created by Jean-Henri Riesener (1734-1806) received master in 1768. It is a background of lemon and amaranth with black and white nets with "dots", ie points. This mosaic of diamonds is found on a large number of furniture Riesener. Pierre Verlet, in his book "Le mobilier royal français", chapter 22, page 114 indicates that this mosaic decoration is found identically on two pieces of furniture stamped Weisweiler: a table with three trays that belongs to the Empress Josephine and is now in the Wallace Collection (inventory number F325), and a writing table of lacquer that was in the same cabinet. The Mercier merchants, Poirier and Dag