AFTER THE MODEL BY ADAM WEISWEILER, CIRCA 1910

The present cabinet is a faithful replica of one probably by Adam Weisweiler dated to 1784-1789, likely commissioned by the celebrated purveyor of luxury goods to the Ancien Régime, marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre, and today in The Wallace Collection (F328). In its close replication of the 18th century model, the present cabinet – of English manufacture – makes use of a similar spotted bird’s-eye mahogany, de rigueur in the late 18th century and revived for use in the reproduction of Ancien Régime models which was very fashionable in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.