  About the Artwork
  
  
  This highly significant demi-lune (half-moon shape) Parisian pier table, or console, features superb mahogany veneers, carving, Gilt bronzes, Wedgwood jasperware plaques, a silvered mirror back (a novel invention in 1792), and the original Bleu turquin marble top. It is a masterpiece of Directoire and pre-Empire furniture.

Several artists collaborated to create this piece including, Martin-Eloy Lignereux, a leading decorative art dealer in Paris, along with Antoine-Leonard Dupasquier, a sculptor and painter, Pierre-Philippe Thomire, a leading French bronze sculptor. 

It is also believed that this exceptionally well-built mahogany structure points to the skilled work of the Adam Weisweiler, a French cabinet maker or possibly Bernard-Marie Cagnard, both of whom are documented working with Lignereux and Thomire in those years until 1809.
  
  
  Title
  Mahogany Pier Table with Sphinx Monopod
  
  
  Artwork Date
  ca. 1799
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Antoine-Léonard Dupasquier  (Designer)
  French, 1748 - c. 1831
  Martin Eloi Lignereux  (Designer)
  French, 1752 - 1809
  Adam Weisweiler  (Maker)
  French, 1750-1810
  Antoine-Léonard Dupasquier  (Maker)
  French, 1748 - c. 1831
  Pierre Philippe Thomire  (Maker)
  French, 1751-1843
  
  
  
  Medium
  Mahogany veneer, gilt bronze, Wedgwood jasperware plaques, mirror, bleu turquin marble
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 36 × 58 1/2 × 19 inches (91.4 × 148.6 × 48.3 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Furniture
  
  
  Department
  European Sculpture and Dec Arts
  
  
  Credit
  Museum Purchase, Stoddard Family Foundation, Joseph H. Parsons Fund, Andrew L. and Gayle Shaw Camden Contemporary and Decorative Arts Fund, Janis and William Wetsman Foundation Fund, Alan, Marianne and Marc Schwartz Fund; and gift of K.T. Keller by exchange
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  2007.117
  
  
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