"Adam Weisweiler, Louis XVI Style Service Console In Mahogany, Nineteenth Century - LS32059951"
Louis XVI style service console in mahogany with three superimposed trays in the shape of a flattened half-moon and a straight belt with a rounded central notch. It rests on four high top legs, surmounted by composite-shaped uprights: twisted and gilded inverted balusters then fluted balusters. Rich ornamentation of chiseled and gilded bronzes such as bretted plates, a frieze of ovae and leaves of water and a gallery of frieze of openwork hearts on the lower plate, leaves of water and vine tassels on the uprights, laurel leaves and an identical gallery on the intermediate plate. The belt is decorated with pewter plates painted in imitation of blue aventurine on which rich decorations of chiseled and gilded bronzes depicting cornucopias, flower crowns, bows and birds perched on flowering branches also stand out, the whole is framed and divided by bretted frames and plates. In the center of the belt, in the notch, a circular Wedgwood porcelain medallion with a sky blue background and a white bas-relief depicting the Three Graces, is surrounded by a frieze of gilded bronze ovae. Three white Carrara marble trays in the shape of a flattened half-moon. The inscription "Wedgwood" is also located behind the biscuit medallion.
Given its brand, the porcelain can be dated between 1812 and 1822. This indication, added to the fact that the plates imitating blue aventurine have marks in English on the back indicating their mounting position, makes it possible to assume that this is an English work from the first half of the nineteenth century. Weisweiler worked a lot with the merchant-mercier Dominique Daguerre, who was notably established in London and could have been at the initiative of the reproduction of the original model, stamped Weisweiler, kept in Baltimore at the Walters Art Museum and coming from the collection of Baron Alfred de Rothschild then that of Henry Walters. This original copy has a Wedgwood biscuit medallion representing the "Sacrifice for Peace" embedded in the center of the console.
Work carried out in the first half of the nineteenth century