ID 1345025 
Lot 107  | A LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CONSOLE
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000 
BY ADAM WEISWEILER, ALMOST CERTAINLY SUPPLIED BY DOMINIQUE DAGUERRE, CIRCA 1785-1790
With a rectangular veined gray marble top above three incurving frieze drawers flanked by mille raies panels on fluting tapering legs with toupie feet joined by interlaced stretchers, stamped A WEISWEILER above proper right front corner, partially effaced, the top black stenciled ERR MOB/272, blue and red II/8 and German customs stamp to top of case, inscribed twice SEL 231 to reverse in black, leather inventory label 2658 to one drawer interior
33 in. (84 cm.) high, 63 ¾ in. (162 cm.) wide, 21 ¼ in. (54 cm.) deep
Provenance
Hodgkins Collection; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 16 May 1927, lot 84.
Arnold Seligmann, Paris.
Jean A. Seligmann & Cie, Paris, by descent from the above, 1935.
Confiscated from the above and transferred to the Louvre via the German Embassy of Paris (ERR no. Sel 231), August 1940.
Transferred to the Nazi depot at Neuschwanstein, November 1940.
Repatriated to France, 17 October 1945 and restituted to the heirs of Jean A. Seligmann, December 1946.
Anonymous sale; Tajan, Hôtel Georges V, Paris, 9 December 1996, lot 127.
Acquired from Perrin, Paris.
| Artist: | Adam Weisweiler (1746 - 1820) | 
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu | 
| Medium: | Mahogany, Marble, Gold, Wood, Stone | 
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XVI | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables | 
| Artist: | Adam Weisweiler (1746 - 1820) | 
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu | 
| Medium: | Mahogany, Marble, Gold, Wood, Stone | 
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XVI | 
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe | 
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Tables | 
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