Description
Small living room table stamped COSSON
Rare and elegant small living room table in rosewood marquetry, lemon tree, sycamore fillets and boxwood, with two tops.
This table rests on a tripod base decorated with beaded sticks and scrolled gilt bronze shoes.
It supports a baluster-shaped shaft in rosewood and fillet, inlaid with fleur-de-lis in tinted sycamore.
The lower top has a curved oval shape and is inlaid with a trellis of intertwined diamonds, in lemon tree and rosewood.
It supports a quadrilateral barrel in rosewood and fillets and is topped with a sheet metal tray painted in imitation of Sèvre porcelain. The latter is framed by an elegant openwork gallery in gilded bronze.
This work matches the quality of the very beautiful furniture of the period.
The finesse of execution, the marquetry and the bronzes, make it a table of superior level which rivals those of very great cabinetmakers known for their furniture with flowered porcelain such as Martin Carlin or Adam Weisweiler.
The painted sheet metal is also an imitation of Carlin’s work.
The central bouquet is modeled on the chiffonier table from the collections of the Louvre Museum, an image of which can be seen on page 240, of Mobilier du Musée du Louvre Volume 1, by Daniel Alcouffe, Anne Dion-Tenenbaum and Amaury Lefébure, Faton edition 1993.
The bouquet on Carlin’s table, painted by Jacques François Micaud père, is a little more extensive, we note however that the central flowers and fruits are exactly those on our table. Cosson thus wanted to show all the prestige of his table by featuring the imitation of high quality porcelain.
Marie-Antoinette’s jewelry chest, exhibited at Versailles, is an even more blatant example of Cosson’s rivalry in execution with Carlin.
The Carlin piece of furniture has a similar crossed diamond marquetry on its rear side.
We can find this particularity of the diamond in marquetry, on our furniture and also on furniture from Weisweiler or Lacroix
Although Sèvre porcelain was a nobler material, some great cabinetmakers used painted sheet metal such as Claude-Charles Saunier who painted flowery decorations on sheet metal,
In particular on two very beautiful pieces of furniture sold by Sotheby’s in 2015, respectively for 351,000 and 237,000 euros
Whose cylinder desk had the particularity of a sheet metal painted in imitation of Sèvre porcelain, on the uprights and the interior
The rarity of painted sheet metal used either to imitate porcelain or to imitate Japanese decor makes these pieces of furniture unique.
This masterpiece by Cosson brings him to the height of the great master Martin Carlin, as he hoped.
Very beautiful work from the Louis XVI period
Stamped COSSON and JME
Jacques Laurent COSSON (1737 – April 4, 1812) received Master on September 4, 1765, is particularly recognized for his high quality small furniture.
He worked for major merchants like Moreau and Migeon.
Dimensions: H 77.5 cm x W top 38 cm x D top 32 cm
Floor length 46