A Unique and Important Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Louis XV Style Marquetry Dressing Table By Haentges Freres
Item # CC1540
$85,000
Haentges Freres
The upper case with triple part adjustable beveled mirror panels with a central feather and leaf mount, over two small drawers, the shaped top with beautiful inlaid floral marquetry over a frieze with a shell cast mounted spring loaded central drawer with a hidden button and flanked by two smaller drawers, raised on cabriole legs headed by scallop shells filled with delicately modeled coral and seaweed terminating in scrolled sabots.
Bronze plaque on the inside of the center drawer and stamp HF on the back of numerous bronzes.
Haentges Frères were a celebrated firm of bronziers and cabinet-makers working in Paris in the last quarter of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Their syle was primarily influenced by Louis XV and Louis XVI designs although they later developed a more reductive Art Deco approach during the first few decades of the twentieth century. Denise Ledoux-Lebard lists Haentges Frères as being located at 9, Immeubles Industriels from 1883 and later at 6, rue Titon.
Details:
Height: Table: 29.5 inches / 75cm
Mirror: 68.5 inches / 174cm
Width: 47 inches / 119cm
Depth: 23 inches / 58cm
