A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, BOIS SATINÉ AND GREEN-STAINED CITRONNIER JARDINIÈRE

The distinctive pierced and interlaced stretcher of this jardinière relates to the documented oeuvre of Adam Weisweiler. Patricia Lemonnier discusses the characteristic patterns of stretchers Weisweiler employed in Weisweiler, Paris, 1983, pp.116-7, and this pattern appears on p.116, although it has been made perpendicular to the legs.

The use of these distinctive entretoises are almost always on works executed in collaboration with the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre. The heir to Simon-Philippe Poirier's atelier, Dominique Daguerre specialised in supplying objets de luxe to the French Court and, increasingly during the 1780s, to the English nobility. Based in the rue St. Honoré, in the 1780s he even opened a shop in Piccadilly, London to supply the Prince of Wales and his circle. Related, although more elaborate stretchers can be seen on the Sèvres porcelain-topped table by Weisweiler and Daguerre, sold at Christie's London, 12 December 2002, lot 118.

Mlle. Lemonier, op. cit., p.190, records a 'jardinière en citronnier' stamped by Weisweiler.