XVI Chest of Drawers - Stamped C.C. Saunier

Features

Stamped C.C. Saunier

Style: Louis XVI (1774-1792)

Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800

Year: Terzo quarto del '700

Origin: Parigi, France

Main essence: Various Wood Essences

Material: Veneer , Black Marble

Description

A Louis XVI chest of drawers with three drawers, protruding uprights with slightly moved and tapering feet. In relief decorations on both sides. Bois de rose veneered surface with a rosewood edge and thread intertwining in a Greek fret in the reserve's corners of the front and sides. Medallion shaped knobs with gilt bronze pendants, feet covering and decorative frieze on the apron. Black marble top, oak interiors. C.C. SAUNIER stencilled on the right upright. Manufactured in Paris, France, third quarter of the 18th century.

Product Condition:
The item shows signs of wear due to age. Any damage or loss is displayed as completely as possible in the pictures. It may require restoration.

Dimensions (cm):
Height: 87
Width: 131
Depth: 60

Certificate issued by: Vittorio Cuoccio

Additional Information

Notes historical bibliographic

Claude- Charles Saunier, 1732-1807, figlio d'arte ottiene la propria maitrise già nel 1752, è conosciuto soprattutto per le produzioni in stile Luigi XVI, arredi simili a questo proposto sono noti e pubblicati nell'ampia bibliografia che lo cita. -Jean Nicolay, L'art et la Maniere des Maitres ebenistes Francais au XVIII siecle, tome II, ed. GUY LE PRAT 1959, pag. 112 -Comte Froncois de Salverte, Les ebeniste s du XVIII siecle, ed F. De Nobele 1957, pagg.297-298,planche LXIII - Alexandre Pradere, Les Ebenistes Francais de Louis XIV a la Revolution, ed. Ste Nlle des Editions du Chene 1989

Style: Louis XVI (1774-1792)

The Louis XVI style precedes by many years the coming to the throne of the sovereign from which the name derives.
The renewed prevalence of the composure of geometric shapes that characterize the furniture of the neoclassical era, is welcomed as an antidote to the freer and more capricious formulations imposed by the Rococo dictates.
The artist's imagination works free interpretations derived from examples of the Greek-Roman, Etruscan or Egyptian world, from which only the architectural metrics are re-proposed with strict observance.
In this sense, it should be noted that only starting from the 1970s and 1980s in cabinet making did we witness the sunset of the pictorial flowering in inlay, in favor of models with a prevalence of geometric ornamentation.
Therefore, furniture characterized by extreme elegance and virile austerity matures.
In Italy, the Louis XVI style finds natural diffusion.
The furniture tends in the norm since the Sixties-Seventies to adopt a linear structure with a strong presence of decorations.
The use of light brown-colored woods is preferred, such as cherry.
The Italian Louis XVI will always remain linked to the production of furnishing accessories specifically oriented to the inlay typology.
These are furniture of well-proportioned dimensions, supported by the characteristic truncated conical pyramid legs, dressed in the mirrors of the top, sides and panels centered by elegant geometric decorations.