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Lot Essay
These fine side cabinets, of demi-lune out shape, recall the commodes à l'anglaise supplied to Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette by court ébénistes such as Stöckel and Riesener. The shape is also indebted to a console desserte executed by Jean-Henri Riesener in the early 1780s and today in The Frick Collection, New York (1916.5.72). A single cabinet of this model, unsigned, sold Bonhams, London, 9 December 2010, lot 173 (£54,000). Also compare a demi-lune meuble à hauteur d’appui by Beurdeley sold Christie’s, London, 10 September 2013, lot 26 (£61,875).
These cabinets exemplify Dasson’s finest output. Especially characteristic is the trellis parquetry filled with flower stems and the finely cast and chased ormolu Corinthian capitals. Dated as they are 1878, and it may be that the critic Louis Gonse had in mind this pair of cabinets, when he commented of Dasson's participation in the Paris 1878 Exposition universelle: ‘nouveau venu dans la carrière industrielle Henry Dasson s'est rapidement crée par la perfection de ses oeuvres une très haute situation à laquelle nous applaudissons chaleureusement.’
These cabinets exemplify Dasson’s finest output. Especially characteristic is the trellis parquetry filled with flower stems and the finely cast and chased ormolu Corinthian capitals. Dated as they are 1878, and it may be that the critic Louis Gonse had in mind this pair of cabinets, when he commented of Dasson's participation in the Paris 1878 Exposition universelle: ‘nouveau venu dans la carrière industrielle Henry Dasson s'est rapidement crée par la perfection de ses oeuvres une très haute situation à laquelle nous applaudissons chaleureusement.’