Louis XV/XVI Cylinder Desk by L. Cueunieres, Gilt Bronze, 1890
By L. Cueunieres Ebeniste.
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
The finest quality Louis XV/XVI transitional style gilt bronze mounted tulipwood and amaranth cylinder desk by L. Cueunieres after models by Jean-Francois Oeben (French 1721-1763). The underside is stamped four times L. Cueunieres Jne Ebieniste, some bronze mounts are inscribed LC on the back. The centre drawer is stamped Edwards & Roberts with an affixed enameled plaque 'Edwards & Robers/Wardour St. 126, PIccadilly 532 Oxford St. London; this being the retailer of the desk.
L. Cueunieres was active in Paris from 1870 and he worked for among others L'Escalier de Cristal. His stand at the Paris Exposition Internationale Universelle of 1900 which included two cylinder desks ( given its quality this may have been be one of them), won him a silver medal.
The firm of Edwards and Roberts in 1845 was one of the leading London cabinet makers and also retail antique furniture bearing their stamp. By the 1892 they occupied more than a dozen buildings in Wardour Street they continued to trade until the end of the century
The desk offered here is clearly inspired by the design of Jean François Oeben, Royal cabinet maker to Louis the 15th and one of the most incentive and talented artisans in 18 century France. Open in invented the cylinder mechanism for his famous bureau du roi n, designed and created by Oeben for Louis the 15th and completed by his pupil and successor Jean Henri Reisener...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Vancouver - Tables