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Attributed to Adam Weisweiler (1744-1820)

Set of console tables 1785-91

Pine and oak with tulipwood and mahogany veneer, purplewood and boxwood marquetry, marble top, gilt bronze mounts, mirrored glass | 88.9 x 131.5 x 48.9 cm (whole object) | RCIN 2542

Picture Gallery, Buckingham Palace

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  • Set of four console tables of oak and pine veneered with tulipwood, mahogany, purplewood and boxwood and fitted with chased gilt bronze mounts. Frieze contains three drawers, the centre one mounted with a plaque chased with putti engaged in mathematical and astronomical studies. Supported on two fluted columns at front and two fluted pilastres at back, flanking a mirrored panel. They rest on a shelf veneered with gemoetic marquetry above four tapering peg-top feet of solid tulipwood. Though unstamped, these tables can be attributed on stylistic grounds to Adam Weisweiler (maître-ébéniste, 1778-1820). The acanthus scrolls decorating the drawer fronts are, however, later embellishments, added for George IV by Benjamin Vulliamy at a cost of 21 guineas per table. The date of the purchase of these tables by George IV is not known, but it may well be that they were acquired in the late 1780s through the intermediary of Dominique Daguerre, when he was employed by the Prince to help furnish Carlton House. These may be the tables listed in the Gallery of Carlton House in 1792, but by the late 1820s, all four stood in the Dining Room, Basement Floor. On 31 October 1827, two tables were delivered to Nicholas Morel for use at Windsor Castle. One of these tables was selected to be placed in the new decorative scheme in the Secretary's room (room 208), while the other was placed in the bathroom (room 210). The other pair was delivered to Mr Dowbiggin for Buckingham Palace by order of Lord Duncannon, 4 April 1834.
    Provenance

    The tables were probably acquired through the dealer-decorator Dominique Daguerre for Carlton House in the late 1780s. Related preparatory drawings of the tables are in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, where they are described as being in the dining room of Carlton House. Part of the group of furniture and furnishings refurbished between 1827 and 1829 to King George IV by the partnership of Morel and Seddon for the Secretary’s Office and the Bath Room at Windsor Castle. Nicholas Morel had formerly worked for The Prince of Wales, later George IV, at Carlton House and the Royal Pavilion at Brighton. Subsequently, he was commissioned to design and furnish the newly built apartments designed by Sir Jeffry Wyattville (1766-1840) for the King at Windsor Castle. In order to fulfil the contract he entered into partnership with George Seddon III whose family had large and long established furniture workshops in Aldersgate Street in the City of London.

  • Medium and techniques

    Pine and oak with tulipwood and mahogany veneer, purplewood and boxwood marquetry, marble top, gilt bronze mounts, mirrored glass

    Measurements

    88.9 x 131.5 x 48.9 cm (whole object)


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