Interesting Late 19th Century Gilt Bronze Mounted Onyx Top Table By Henry Dasson

An Excellent Quality Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Gueridon By Henry Dasson Henry Dasson The rectangular top with pierced three-quarter gallery, above a single frieze drawer, the sides each mounted with Minerva’s helmet, supported on floral vine bronze mounted tapering legs each headed by flower swags. Signed Henry Dasson 1881 to the bronze mount on the left side. After the very famous 18th century model by Jean-Henry Riesener. This table is an almost identical copy of Jean-Henri Riesener’s original supplied in 1780 for Marie-Antoinette’s cabinet intérieur at Versailles. In the 19th century’s leading ébénistes often reproduced this model, including François Linke...

Late 19th century Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted parquetry-top center table. Oval parquetry-top raised by bronze mounted cabriole legs.

A Late 19th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Marble Top Lamp Table A shaped oval marble insert top, above a bronze mounted frieze with a single center drawer. Details: H...

An exceptional late 19th century gilt bronze-mounted Louis XVI style commode. By Henry Dasson A marble top above a frieze set with three drawers with pierced laurel decoration, over three garland-hung cupboard doors each with shelves, the sides similarly decorated, on toupie feet. Signed Henry Dasson 1879 to the bronze mount on the side and stamped Henry Dasson 1879 twice to the back of the carcass. After the very famous 18th century model by Martin Carlin. Henry Dasson was considered one of the finest makers of gilt bronze-mounted furniture in the 19th century. He established a workshop at 106 rue Vieille-du-Temple, Paris, and specialised in the production of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI style furniture using the very finest ormolu mounts with the highest quality mercury gilding. In 1871, Dasson purchase Charles-Guillaume Winckelsen business and remaining stock. Dasson exhibited at the 1878 and 1889 Paris Exhibition. He displayed Louis XV and XVI styles as well as pieces of his own modified eighteenth century design. The exhibits in 1878 included a table entirely in gilt bronze, purchased by Lord Dudley. Martin Carlin (ca 1730 – 1785) was a Parisian ébéniste, born at Freiburg, who was received master at Paris in 1766. Carlin worked at first in the shop of Jean-François Oeben, whose sister he married. He set up independently in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, an unfashionable quarter of Paris, where few of his wealthy clientele would have penetrated. Carlin sold his works exclusively to marchands-merciers such as Simon-Philippe Poirier and his partner Dominique Daguerre, who acted as decorator-designers. It was only through these entrepreneurs that Carlin could acquire the Sèvres Porcelain plaques that decorate many of his pieces. His earliest such pieces are datable by the marks on their porcelain to 1766; they followed designs supplied by the dealer Poirier. Although Martin Carlin made some larger pieces— secrétaires à abattant (drop-front secretary desks), tables, and commodes— he is best known for refined small furnishings...

This circular side table by Henry Dasson is surmounted by an inset marble top, which is bounded by a gilt bronze ring and is set above a mahogany apron. The table stands on three two...

A Fine Occasional Table By Henry Dasson Of rectangular form, constructed in mahogany dressed with finely cast and chased gilt bronze mounts; rising from ormolu mounted toupie feet, ...

Solid mahogany and polished oak. Embracing frame box on high slightly curved legs with intermediate tray connected in sabots. Slightly protruding top plate in brass frame. (G-69).

A Superb Quality French 19th Century Louis XVI Style Ormolu Mounted Mahogany and Kingwood Vitrine Table, Attributed to Henry Dasson (French, 1825-1896), with a beveled glass lift top...