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Adam Weisweiler (1744-1820)
Console table late eighteenth century
Oak and ebony with pietra dura and gilt bronze mounts and granite top | 97.5 x 146.0 x 59.0 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2602
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Rectangular console table veneered in ebony with a granite top; fitted with three frieze drawers, the outer two with panels of high relief pietra dura depicting fruit, flanking a central drawer with a bronze relief of putti with the attributes of learning adn the arts. On four square-section legs, the front two with gilt bronze female terminals, joined by a shaped stretcher, on turned gilt feet.
Provenance
This table was originally in the bedroom of the Princess of Salm-Kirbourg and was sold on 8 November 1790, after her death, for 6000 francs. It appeared again in the auction of a dealer, Villemain, on 20 July 1798 (lot 59) and once more in an auction of the goods of M. Guichard, 21 March 1810. This table was purchased in 1816 by Benois on behalf of George IV, from the Paris dealer Rocheux, for 7,250 francs. It appears in a watercolour of the Blue Velvet Ante Room at Carlton House, dating from 1819.
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Creator(s)
(cabinet maker)(nationality)Acquirer(s)
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Medium and techniques
Oak and ebony with pietra dura and gilt bronze mounts and granite top
Measurements
97.5 x 146.0 x 59.0 cm (whole object)
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