Jean Henri Riesener (section Encoignure)
House, UK Paire de encoignure, delivered to Louis XVI's "Chambre du Roi" at Versailles, c. 1774, Royal Collection, UK Encoignure, delivered to Marie-Antoinette's...
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Encoignure is a type of furniture located in a corner of a room. In French, it literally means the angle, or return, formed by the junction of two walls...
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main section, in which case such a piece was a commode à encoignures; pairs of encoignures or corner-cabinets might also be designed to complement a...
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piece of drawing room furniture, and was rarely valued for its aesthetic. Encoignure Chisholm 1911. Attribution: This article incorporates text from a publication...
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Museum (New York City) Mirror cabinet (Art Nouveau) Cabinetry Closet Encoignure Hoosier cabinet Shoe rack Tansu (Japanese) Harper, Douglas. "wardrobe"...
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Martin Carlin (section Encoignure (Corner cabinet))
and on display in the Green Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace. Pair of Encoignures, 1772, Wallace Collection, UK Music-stand and writing table, c. 1775...
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porcelain bowl and two fish mounted in gilded bronze, France (1745–1749) An encoignure by royal cabinetmaker Jean-Pierre Latz (c. 1750) Lacquered Commode in...
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incunabulum cuneus cune- wedge coign/coigne, coin, cuneate, cuneiform, cuneus, encoignure, obcuneate, precuneus, quoin, sconcheon/scuncheon cūpa cūp- tub, goblet...
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à mettre dans un trumeau, c. 1705; Martin Carlin – 4 items: Paire de Encoignures, c. 1772; Secrétaire à abattant, c. 1775; Table en secrétaire, c. 1783;...
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cune- wedge Latin cuneus coign, coigne, coin, cuneate, cuneiform, cuneus, encoignure, obcuneate, precuneus, quoin, sconcheon, scuncheon cur- care for Latin...
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An encoignure by royal cabinetmaker Jean-Pierre Latz circa 1750 is richly ornamented with marquetry and ormolu....
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delivered to Louis XVI's "Chambre du Roi" at Versailles, c. 1774; Paire de encoignure, delivered to Louis XVI's "Chambre du Roi" at Versailles, c. 1774; Jewel-cabinet...
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Boston Museum of Fine Arts. On several commodes and corner cabinets (encoignures) dating from the 1760s he employed varnished sheet metal panels imitating...
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used for /ɲ/ in a few French words such as oignon /ɔɲɔ̃/ "onion" and encoignure "corner". It was eliminated in the French spelling reform of 1990, but...
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early triumph for them both in 1743, with a commode and corner cabinets (encoignures) en suite, that were delivered on 20 January by Hébert for the use of...
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Inv.¬COG J373, [10].. The Victoria and Albert Museum has a pair of Encoignures (1760-1765), with each cupboard door decorated with a floral marquetry...
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silver, and had a few intricate details, such as cartouches. The French encoignure cabinets also proved highly popular in Italian furniture. French style...
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cune- wedge Latin cuneus coign, coigne, coin, cuneate, cuneiform, cuneus, encoignure, obcuneate, precuneus, quoin, sconcheon, scuncheon cur- care for Latin...
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commode is stamped by Latz, mentions among other Latz pieces the "superbes encoignures de Madame Burat— dignes de la perfection à laquelle Oeben a porté les...
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Lacroix. Among his most celebrated pieces are the corner cupboards (encoignures) made in 1755 for Louis XV's Cabinet de Médailles at Versailles (Bibliothèque...
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Encyclopedia of Decorative Art, s,v. "Boulle" See sale catalogue, Christie's New York, 2 November 2000, lot 231, a pair of lacquer encoignures v t e...
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valuable items of furniture, such as a commode by Boulle, and a pair of encoignures, the State Dressing Room, the American Room, which is decorated with...
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