REF NO : B57762

Martin Carlin

A Fine Oval Three-Tier Gueridon

France, Circa 1870

£5,800

A Fine Louis XVI Style Oval Three Tier Gueridon After The Model by Simon Phillippe Poirier and Martin Carlin. This fine and unusual gueridon has three...

Dimensions

Height: 102 cm (41 in)
Width: 39 cm (16 in)
Depth: 50 cm (20 in)
REF NO : B57762

Description

A Fine Louis XVI Style Oval Three Tier Gueridon
After The Model by Simon Phillippe Poirier and Martin Carlin.

This fine and unusual gueridon has three graduating oval shelves surmounted by a pierced gallery and supported by an octagonal central column. The column is raised on three serpentine legs, each with a scrolling acanthus leaf terminal.

This form of gueridon is based on a celebrated model conceived by the marchand-mercier Simon Philippe Poirier around 1770, and executed by Martin Carlin, maitre in 1776.

French, Circa 1870.

Date

Circa 1870

Origin

France

Medium

Gilt Bronze

Martin Carlin

Martin Carlin was born in Germany in 1730 and emigrated to Paris to become an ébéniste. He was already active as an ébéniste by 1759, at which time he married Marie-Catherine Oeben, sister of the successful ébéniste Jean-Francois Oeben, for whom he probably worked until the latters death in 1763. Carlin died in 1785.

Carlin sold his works exclusively to middlemen such as the marchands-merciers Simon-Philippe Poirier and Dominique Daguerre. He was particularly known for his furniture decorated with Sèvres porcelain plaques, and in the early 1780’s with Japenese lacquer panels. His first recorded piece of porcelain mounted furniture dates to 1763, a bonheur-du-jour now in the Bowes Museum, Co. Durham. He worked from designs provided by Dominique Daguerre, for the foremost collectors of the day, including the French Crown. Carlin shifted his emphasis after 1778 to producing sumptuous furniture decorated with Japanese lacquer, for the Merchands.

His furniture was purchased by, among others, Mesdames, the aunts of Louis XVI, Mme du Barry, the Duchesse de Mazarin, the Duchesse de Bourbon, the Queen of Naples and the Duchesse de Saxe-Teschen.

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