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A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY JARDINIERES ONE BY JOSEPH GENGENBACH, KNOWN AS CANABAS, CIRCA 1770, THE OTHER POSSIBLY OF A LATER DATE Each with canted square body with fluted corners, the bases with scrolled legs, with tin liners, both stands stamped CANABAS, one also stamped CANABAS to exterior 25 ? in. (64 cm.) high, 13 in. (33 cm.) square
Acquired from Maurice Segoura, Paris, 1983.
Joseph Gengenbach, known as Canabas, ma?tre in 1766.
Joseph Gengenbach, called Canabas, was of German origin. He settled in the famed Parisian Faubourg Saint-Antoine in 1755 and became ma?tre in 1766 after working for Jean-Fran?ois Oeben and Pierre Migeon. He specialized in small pieces of furniture in the fashionable go?t anglais, mainly utilitarian and practical forms often of innovative conception. His furniture was executed in the best possible mahogany and his pieces, as seen in the present example, are usually characterized by the restrained use or complete lack of ormolu mounts. He is known to have focused predominantly on small functional pieces, which could be used for service without the need for servants. A pair of practically identical jardinières by Canabas, possibly the Wrightsman pair, was sold from the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge, Christie's London, 24 June 1971, lot 109.