拍品专文
This 'commode à l'anglaise' relates to the oeuvre of the celebrated marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre. The heir to Simon-Philippe Poirier's (d. 1785) atelier, Daguerre specialised in supplying objets de luxe to the French Court and, following the Revolution particularly to the English nobility. Based in the rue St. Honoré, as his trade label reveals he 'Tient Magafin de Porcelaines, Bronzes, Ebénisterie, Glaces, Curiosités, & autres Marchandifes'. In 1786, Daguerre signed an agreement with Josiah Wedgwood for the exclusive rights to sell Wedgwoods' Jasperware in France, and in the following year he was commissioned to supply the furnishings for George, Prince of Wales at Carlton House, under the direction of Henry Holland. Opening a shop in Piccadilly, Daguerre supplied such figures as the Duke of York, Lady Holderness, Earl Spencer and the 5th Duke of Bedford.
With its foliate arabesque panelled frieze, gadrooned plinth and 'commode à l'anglaise' form, this piece relates to the Sèvres-porcelain mounted 'cabinet in the Bow Room', supplied by Daguerre to Carlton House and attributed to Adam Weisweiler, maître in 1778. Morover, its panelled plinth and foliate-capped turned tapering fluted legs, as well as the gadrooned plinth mount and arabesque frieze, feature on another Weisweiler commode supplied by Daguerre for the Cabinet Intérieur of Louis XVI at the château de Saint-Cloud in 1788 (now in the Musée du Louvre, Catalogue no. 104).
THE COWPER COLLECTION AT PANSHANGER
This commode à l'anglaise was almost certainly acquired by Peter, 5th Earl of Cowper (d. 1836) for his newly-aggrandised mansion at Panshanger. Following his marriage to the Hon. Emily Lamb in 1815, the 5th Earl, a celebrated connoisseur and francophile, commissioned William Atkinson (d. 1839), Thomas Hope's architect at the Deepdene, Surrey, to improve Repton's house at Panshanger in the prevalent antiquarian taste. The art collection, initiated by the 2nd Earl and improved by the 5th Earl, was much admired by Waagen on his visit in 1835
With its foliate arabesque panelled frieze, gadrooned plinth and 'commode à l'anglaise' form, this piece relates to the Sèvres-porcelain mounted 'cabinet in the Bow Room', supplied by Daguerre to Carlton House and attributed to Adam Weisweiler, maître in 1778. Morover, its panelled plinth and foliate-capped turned tapering fluted legs, as well as the gadrooned plinth mount and arabesque frieze, feature on another Weisweiler commode supplied by Daguerre for the Cabinet Intérieur of Louis XVI at the château de Saint-Cloud in 1788 (now in the Musée du Louvre, Catalogue no. 104).
THE COWPER COLLECTION AT PANSHANGER
This commode à l'anglaise was almost certainly acquired by Peter, 5th Earl of Cowper (d. 1836) for his newly-aggrandised mansion at Panshanger. Following his marriage to the Hon. Emily Lamb in 1815, the 5th Earl, a celebrated connoisseur and francophile, commissioned William Atkinson (d. 1839), Thomas Hope's architect at the Deepdene, Surrey, to improve Repton's house at Panshanger in the prevalent antiquarian taste. The art collection, initiated by the 2nd Earl and improved by the 5th Earl, was much admired by Waagen on his visit in 1835