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Updated: May 22, 2025
Mme. de Pompadour used to spend part of her time there before she built Menars. There were treasures in that place. My man found the fan in the drawer of an inlaid what-not, which I should certainly have bought if I were collecting things of the kind, but it is quite out of the question a single piece of Riesener's furniture is worth three or four thousand francs!
Riesener's designs do not show much fertility, but his work is highly finished and elaborate. His method was generally to make the centre panel of a commode front, or the frieze of a table, a tour de force, the marqueterie picture being wonderfully delicate.
Louis XVI. AND MARIE ANTOINETTE: The Queen's Influence The Painters Chardin and Greuze More simple Designs Characteristic Ornaments of Louis XVI. Furniture Riesener's Work Gouthière's Mountings Specimens in the Louvre The Hamilton Palace Sale French influence upon the design of Furniture in other countries The Jones Collection Extract from the "Times."
There is business in it. . . . It has never been copied; it is a unique specimen, made solely for Mme. de Pompadour' and so on, till my man, all on fire for his what-not, forgets the fan, and lets me have it for a mere trifle, because I have pointed out the beauties of his piece of Riesener's furniture. So here it is; but it needs a great deal of experience to make such a bargain as that.
Mme. de Pompadour used to spend part of her time there before she built Menars. There were treasures in that place. My man found the fan in the drawer of an inlaid what-not, which I should certainly have bought if I were collecting things of the kind, but it is quite out of the question a single piece of Riesener's furniture is worth three or four thousand francs!
There is business in it.... It has never been copied; it is a unique specimen, made solely for Mme. de Pompadour' and so on, till my man, all on fire for his what-not, forgets the fan, and lets me have it for a mere trifle, because I have pointed out the beauties of his piece of Riesener's furniture. So here it is; but it needs a great deal of experience to make such a bargain as that.
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