A Very fine ormolu mounted Louis XV and Vernis Martin style cabinet after the model of Joseph Emmanuel Zwiener, late 19th century, sans traverse veneer inlaid, and topped with white moulded marble above an ormolu engraved frieze flanked by espagnolette busts, centered with a breakfront hand painted door with vernis martin scene within ormolu bands, ornamented with scrolls, cartouches, ormolu mask and raised on splayed feet covered with ormolu foliate sabots

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A Very fine ormolu mounted Louis XV and Vernis Martin style cabinet after the model of Joseph Emmanuel Zwiener, late 19th century, sans traverse veneer inlaid, and topped with white moulded marble above an ormolu engraved frieze flanked by espagnolette busts, centered with a breakfront hand painted door with vernis martin scene within ormolu bands, ornamented with scrolls, cartouches, ormolu mask and raised on splayed feet covered with ormolu foliate sabots.
REF: A733

H : 120 cm
W: 133 cm
D : 50 cm

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Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener:

Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener (1849-1895) ranks among the best haut luxe Parisian cabinetmakers of the late 19th century. Born in Herdon, Germany in 1849, he arrived in Paris by 1880 where he remained until his death in 1895. Working in several styles fashionable in Paris at the time, he copied mainly Louis XV pieces from public collections, adapting them in his own exuberant interpretation of Rococo. At the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889, he received the gold medal and a note of high praise from the jurists.

Zwiener almost certainly employed François Linke, who was six years younger and a fellow German-speaker. The Pankraz Gedenkbuch mentions Linke as "working in Paris with a German master.