BY AUGUSTE-HIPPOLYTE SAUVREZY, PARIS, DATED 1878

In Paris Furniture: The Luxury Market of the 19th Century, Christopher Payne sheds new light on the output of the highly skillful, though seldom recognized firm of Sauvrezy. Much like his contemporary, Henri-Auguste Fourdinois, Sauvrezy specialised in cabinetry in the neo-Renaissance style which was highly-acclaimed at the 1867 Exposition universelle. The present pair of stands, mounted with reserves of precious hardstone, was produced at the height of the firm's output in 1878 when Sauvrezy reportedly employed over thirty craftsmen and was actively supplying large number of furniture to various clients in St. Petersburg (op cit., p. 506).