178 - Henry DASSON
Important chest of drawers with doors in mahogany and mahogany veneer, the posts with detached columns
columns rest on six tapered legs with copper flutes. Ornamentation
in chased and gilded bronze with friezes of scrolls, moldings, baguettes, rings
and sabots. Gray veined green marble top.
Stamped Henry DASSON 1887.
Louis XVI style, circa 1900, after the model executed by Adam Weisweiler and delivered in
1788 by Daguerre for the interior cabinet of Louis XVI at the Château de Saint-Cloud.
92 x 146 x 58 cm.
(Weakened posterior legs, accidents and missing veneer on the legs, missing
the ring of the central drawer, scratches).
An identical model, also stamped Henry Dasson, was sold in London (Sotheby's,
08/11/2022, lot 85).
Influenced by the work of the cabinetmaker Adam Weisweiler, Henry Dasson is inspired here by a model of
of a chest of drawers with two leaves, one of which is a double leaf, in moiré mahogany, flanked by detached
detached columns. This one was supplied in 1788 by the merchant-merchant Daguerre to Louis XVI at the Château de
Saint-Cloud (today kept in the castle of Compiègne, Inv. C.46020).
Bibliography :
LEMONNIER, Patricia, Weisweiler, editions Monelle Hayot, Paris, 1983.
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