A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany and Amboyna Vitrine Cabinet-On-Stand

Object Description

A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Mahogany and Amboyna Vitrine Cabinet-On-Stand, Attributed to Henry Dasson.

This fine vitrine cabinet has an upper section with a shaped rectangular brocatelle jaune d’Espagne marble top, above an egg and dart border and a frieze finely mounted with trumpet playing cherubs, below is a glazed door finely framed with gilt-bronze borders opening to a mirrored interior fitted with shelves, framed by gilt-bronze cast baluster columns. The lower table section with a single drawer raised on tapering legs united by a shaped under tier and toupie feet.

Stamped to the carcass ‘Renault Et Cie’.

France, Circa 1890.

Object History

This vitrine is stamped ‘Renault Et Cie’ which is an undocumented maker and might refer to a retailer. The Louis XVI design of this vitrine and the high quality of cabinetmaking it exhibits, makes for an attribution to the workshops of Henry Dasson. For example compare a cabinet illustrated in C, Payne, Paris Furniture – the luxury market of the 19th century, Éditions Monelle Hayot, (Paris), 2018; p. 315.

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