ADAM'S Country House Collections Day II - 14th October 2025

75 Country House Collections|13 th - 14 th October 2025 601 RÉNE- JOSEPH MÉNARD (FRENCH 1827 - 1887) A CATTLE MARKET Oil on canvas, 127 x 183cm Signed lower right ‘Rene Menard’ Provenance: Tableaux, mobiler et objets d’art, Beaussant & Lefévre, October 16th 2013, lot no. 73 € 1,000 - 1,500 602 A LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU MOUNTED KINGWOOD, MAHOGANY TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY BUREAU À CYLINDRE, LATE 19TH CENTURY IN THE MANNER OF JEAN- HENRI RIESENER surmounted by a three-quarter pierced gallery with inset marble top above a roll-top with cast mount of Minerva and panels depicting Geography and As- tronomy enclosing a fitted interior flanked by a pull- out slide, above a frieze rawer and small drawers on cabriole legs and sabots, numbered underneath in chalk ‘7101140’/4509’ and ‘(710/7/350)’ 118cm high, 136.5cm wide, 71cm deep Jean-Henri Riesener (1734 - 1806) was a German ébéniste (cabinetmaker) working in Paris and known for his neoclassical ‘Louis XVI’ period furni- ture. On moving to Paris he was apprenticed with Jean-François Oeben a supplier of furniture to Louis XV. At the time, in the 1750s, cabinetmaking was a very competitive field and to become a recognised maker, one had to engage in lengthy training, over- seen by guilds. A highly collaborative process, cabi- net making involved numerous different people of different skillsets. Risesener worked with extensive- ly with Étienne Martincour, a bronze worker and gilder throughout his career. Riesener was cabinet maker to the king for over a decade and his designs were in part influenced by the taste of the court and royal patrons. His Bureau du Roi, is one of his most famous commissions and seen as a masterpiece of French cabinetmaking in the 18th century. It had been started by Oeben prior to his death but was delivered by Riesener in 1769, with only his name appearing on it. Roll-top desks were a speciality of his workshop and although not invented as a form by Riesener, his master Oeben seems to have delivered one of the earliest exam- ples of its type. Riesener adapted the form of the cylinder top desk in a number of ways in order to diversify the designs, by using different marquetry decoration or mounts. In 1786, Marie-Antoinette ordered a cylinder desk from Riesener for her pri- vate apartments at the Château de Fontainebleau. A similar example can be found in the Wallace Col- lection, London (Cylinder Desk F277). € 5,000 - 8,000