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Cabinet (one of a pair)
Creator
Adam WeisweilerFrench Artist · 1744–1820
All works by this person →Like many other important *ébénistes* of the 1700s, Adam Weisweiler was German-born. Although scholars know nothing about his apprenticeship and early training, church records show that he was established in Paris in 1777, the year he was married. He became a *maître-ébéniste* (master cabinetmaker) in 1778, set up his workshop in the unfashionable quarter of Paris on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Anto
More on Getty ULAN- Date
- about 1808; pietra dura plaques mid-17th–late 18th century
- Medium
- Oak veneered with ebony and mahogany; pewter stringing; set with pietra dura plaques and and micromosaic roundels; gilt-bronze mounts; portor d'Italie marble top
- Culture
- French (cabinet); Italian (pietra dure)
- Department
- Decorative Arts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
From the Renaissance, art connoisseurs valued naturally colorful and rare hardstones, known as *pietre dure*, especially when they were arranged by skillful artisans into plaques of mosaic patterns or pictorial reliefs. The enduring popularity and durability of the stones meant such plaques could be transferred to new settings of the latest fashion. For example, these mid-seventeenth-to-late-eighteenth-century plaques were fitted into a newly-made cabinet around 1808. The English ambassador to Saint-Petersburg, Russia, purchased this cabinet and its older pair in that year.
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