Attribué à Joseph-Emmanuel ZWIENER

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Attribué à Joseph-Emmanuel ZWIENER
Rare asymmetrical desk in veneer all faces of rosewood, violet with inlaid decoration of wood of end representing branches in bloom. It opens in belt by a lateral drawer. The tray is covered with fawn leather and girdled by a mold. It is surmounted by a cardboard clock opening with eight drawers covered with dark leather outside and droguet inside. With a turn of the key of the drawer in the belt, a mechanism blocks the drawers of the cartonnier making them inaccessible. The set is topped by two putti, one holding a scepter fleurdelisé, the other a horn. It presents a rich ornamentation of chased and gilded bronzes: all the amounts and the panels are underlined by baguettes in the shape of palms, the feet are decorated with falls in espagnolettes to the tied ribbon whose body is finished by foliage. They are connected to the belt by garlands. The hooves are in dog paws. A small side presents a smoking cassolette, the other a palmette in a burst cartouche. Circa 1880-1890. H. 167 cm = L. 148 cm = D. 85 cm. Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener was an important Parisian cabinetmaker of German origin, born in Silesia around 1849 and working in Paris from 1880 to 1895. He produced very refined furniture of impeccable execution and accompanied by high quality bronzes. He employed Leon Messager, a sculptor of immense talent. At the World Fair in Paris in 1889, he received a gold medal. By 1890, Zwiener's fame was such that he was commissioned by Kaiser Wilhelm II to completely refurnish the Royal Palace in Berlin. He then left France and sold his bronzes and stock to the house of Jansen. Léon Messager continued his brilliant career with François Linke. This explains why the works of the two cabinetmakers show strong similarities. The attribution to Zwiener is justified by the presence of very similar bronzes - espagnolettes and smoking cassolette,
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