Office Slope Cribs Attributed To Pierre II Migeon, Louis XV Period

Superb sloping desk with boxes inlaid with rosewood on all sides. It opens with a flap inlaid with crosses in the upper part, the latter forming a leather-trimmed writing case resting on two iron pulls and discovers seven small drawers and four niches arranged in tiers and a secret locker. The front has three drawers and two doors, the one on the left revealing two drawers and the one on the right a large locker locked by a metal button placed under the box, it rests on four arched feet terminated by bronze hooves. Original bronze fittings and locks, Louis XV period. Attributed to Pierre II MIGEON Pierre II MIGEON (1701-1758) This coffered desk model, with drawers and doors in the lower parts and a marquetry of braces on the flap, is characteristic of the works of Pierre II MIGEON. The corporation of carpenters-cabinetmakers was governed by edicts dating from 1645. In 1743, Parliament ratified the revision of the statutes of the Community of Master Carpenters and Cabinetmakers, the carpenters were in the Bonne Nouvelle district while the cabinetmakers were installed in the Faubourg Saint Antoine. The masters were required to stamp their work, and chosen from among them the jurors of the corporation were to affix the hallmark of Jurande JME to it, it seems that these prescriptions were not always observed since many pieces of furniture and seats bear neither stamp nor mark de Jurande or only one of the two. Note however that as far as the stamp is concerned, the statutes of 1743 only recalled an obligation which dated back over a century and which had not been followed up. These statutes promulgated in 1743 by letters of Louis XV will not be registered and published only in 1751. They will be abolished in 1776 by Turgot then restored a few months later, they will disappear definitively in 1789 with the suppression of the corporate system. Bibliography: Pierre KJELLBERG, the French Mobiler of the 18th century.