BY LOUIS-MAGDELEINE PLUVINET, CIRCA 1780, STAMPED M. PLUVINET

细节

A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD CONSOLE EN DEMI LUNE
BY LOUIS-MAGDELEINE PLUVINET, CIRCA 1780, STAMPED M. PLUVINET
The brèche d'Alep marble top above a frieze carved with rosettes within entrelac motifs above scrolled tripod legs joined in the centre and on the sides by foliate and floral swags
37½ in. (96 cm.) high; 65 in. (165 cm.) wide; 23½ in. (60 cm.) deep

来源

Acquired from Kugel, Paris, 1999.

出版

P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Francais du XVIIIe Siecle, Paris, 1998, p.848 (erroneously as stamped by D. Tompillier)

注意事项

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

拍品专文

Louis-Magdeleine Pluvinet, maître in 1775.

Established in his own atelier in 1778, Pluvinet's career was extremely brief, as he died in 1783, placing this console firmly in the period 1775-80. Principally a menuisier en siège, Pluvinet realised at least one other console table, similarly ornamented with garlands of flowers, which was advertised by Partridge in Connoisseur, May-June 1963. For specialist sculpteur or carving, Pluvinet probably sub-contracted to Le Guay, to whom he owed the considerable sum of 1,000 livres on his death (P. Lemonnier, 'Pluvinet, Menuisiers, deux dynasties de maes menuisiers en sièges', L'Estampille, April 1993, p.67).