Syrie MAUGHAM (1879-1955)
Attributed to S. MAUGHAM by style overlap but not documented.
Console veneered with old mirrors with solid ebony glazing beads, circa 1935.
Height 82 cm, length 136.5 cm, depth 52 cm.
Triangular spindle legs with two sides trimmed with mirror and one side in blackened wood, resting on blackened wooden cups.
Mirrored top with teeth at the four corners and at the center front, highlighted by the ebony cornice, repeating the molding of the belt.
The type of distorting ripple mirror used for the legs and sash is not found in 20th century mirrored furniture.
Serge Roche, the most renowned designer of mirrored furniture in the 1930s/1940s, used acid-aged flat mirrors fixed by screws fitted with a cover to the frame.
As Syria Maugham commonly practiced in his creations, this is the reuse of a rare mercury mirror, dating from the early 19th or even 18th century, with beautiful natural corrosion.
The top is made of a mercury mirror with a flat surface, late 19th/early 20th century.
The fine moldings of the glazing beads holding the mirror plates are made of high quality solid ebony.
The general design of this piece of furniture is very elaborate in detail, the workmanship is very careful and the materials are rare and precious, denoting a particular high-level order whose sponsor is unknown to us.
The right rear foot has two discreet cracks.
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