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A Louis XVI Style Vernis Martin Meuble à Hauteur d'Appui
A Louis XVI Style Vernis Martin Meuble à Hauteur d'Appui
Dimensions: H: 50.5 in / 127 cm | W: 54.5 in / 138 cm | D: 19.5 in / 49 cm
A Louis XVI Style Vernis Martin Meuble à Hauteur d'Appui
Attributed to Maison Kriéger
The cabinet constructed from kingwood and dressed with gilt bronze mounts, with a stepped top surmounted by Brecia marble slabs and raised on six bulbous ormolu clasped feet, the tripartite front of the cabinet with a large painted vernis martin mythological panel on the central door, opening to reveal a shelved interior, flanked by panels of kingwood mosaic parquetry headed by marquetry lion masks surrounded by fan inlay and suspended floral garlands. The sides of the cabinet inlaid with conforming parquetry mosaic.
French, circa 1890
Maison Kriéger
Running one of the largest furniture workshops in all of Paris, the firm of Maison Kriéger was founded in 1826, and continued into the early 20th century producing some of the finest Empire style furniture as well as modern interpretations of Louis XV and Louis XVI styles. They attended and displayed at most of the major exhibitions of the 19th century, including the Great Exhibition of 1851, as well as Paris '67, Paris '78, Paris '89, Chicago '93, Saint Louis 1904, and Brussels 1910.
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