19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF FRANCOIS DE CUVILLIES

The offered lot bears close similarities to furniture attributed to designs executed by the Flemish architect and decorator François de Cuvilliès the Elder (1695-1768). In 1715, de Cuvilliès was summoned to the royal court by Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria to design furniture and boiseries. These were characteristically influenced by the Regence style popular in Paris but embellished upon to adapt to the German courtly ambience. This is most notably expressed in the work executed by de Cuvillès for the Residenz, Munich, as well as in designs for the interiors at Schloss Bruhl. (See a Spiegelkabinett designed by de Cuvillès at the Schlosschen Falkenlust, Bruhl, illustrated in H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, 1970, vol. II, figs. 469-471).