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CHARLES-GUILLAUME WINCKELSEN (1812-1871)

An Important Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Cabinet (c. 1860 France)

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Item Stock Code

B66850

Item Medium Description

Ebonised Wood, Gilt-Bronze, Lacquer

Item Signed, Inscribed, Dated Details

Stamped to the back of the carcass 'CHLES. WINCKELSEN - 21 RUE ST. LOUIS - (AU MARAIS)'.

European Dimensions

150.00 cm wide   105.00 cm high   54.00 cm deep

UK/USA Converted Dimensions

59.06 inches wide  41.34 inches high  21.26 inches deep

Item Literature

Denise Ledoux-Lebard, 'Les Ebenistes du XIX Siecle', pps 635-8.

Item Description / Dealer Expertise

This Important Louis XVI Style Cabinet by Winckelsen has a shaped Portor marble top above a frieze drawer and two concealed demi-lune drawers above a lacquer panel door. Executed in gold hiramaki-e and takamaki-e technique against a black ground, the lacquer work door depicts a mountainous landscape in classical Yamato-e style and is of exceptional quality.

Charles-Guillaume Winckelsen (1812-1871) made high quality furniture in the style of the Eighteenth Century during the Nineteenth Century. He was established at 23, Val-Sainte-Catherine, Paris from 1854 until his death in 1871. As a result of his comparatively short career little of his work is available today. All recorded items by this maker are of of the highest quality, especially the bronze work. Jean-Louis-Benjamin Gros was his main furniture maker and Joseph-Nicolas Langlois his chiseller. Although he only worked for a few short years, he was responsible for a number of remarkable copies of Eighteenth Century Royal pieces which he produced for favoured clients including Prince Radziwil and the Maquis de Lillers.

Henry Dasson took over the Winckelsen workshops in July 1871.

WINCKELSEN
Type Artist/Maker
Country of origin France
Born 1812
Died 1871

The atelier of Charles-Guillaume Winckelsen is one of the undiscovered secrets of the Second Empire exhibition period. Born in 1817, at the new dawn of the Bourbon dynasty, Winckelsen died in 1871 as the Third republic was being formed. Thus his whole philosophy of design, alongside his contemporaries, was one of maintaining the emblems of the ancien regime, a fashion attributed to the de Goncourt brothers, their writings and collections. In re-using motifs from the eighteenth century Winckelsen favoured the Louis XVI style without reverting to simple pastiche , however at no time did he ever attempt to copy or re-use moulds of an earlier period.
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