"stamped F. I. Papst" - Splendid Oblong Mahogany Console - Louis XVI Period - 18th C

Oblong flamed mahogany console for the belt, and mahogany veneer,
It opens with a belt drawer and two chetrons (small drawers arranged on the side of a cabinet).
The belt is supported by uprights with cut sides joined by two crotch shelves.
Rich ornamentation of chiseled and gilded bronze on the belt, and double-row brass beads on all the feet
It is topped with a veined gray marble with an inverted cavet,

Very beautiful cabinetry
- Stamped "FI PAPST".
Louis XVI period - circa 1785 - 18th century

Provenance: Private collection
- Private mansion Paris

87 x 80 x 39 cm

PAPST François-Ignace
Cabinetmaker from Germany, he became Master on September 3, 1785.
Installed in the Saint-Joseph court in the rue de Charonne then rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, he mainly delivered the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne for the castles of Fontainebleau, Versailles, Compiègne and Rambouillet.
For forty years he will keep the esteem of all the governments which succeeded one another in France.
Most of its furniture, chests of drawers, secretaries, game tables, consoles, etc., whether in the Louis XVI, Directoire, Empire style, were designed with care and rigor, very soberly decorated with moldings or simply framed with fine baguettes. of bronze beads.
He used rosewood and violetwood, but the vast majority of his works were made of mahogany.
It was with honor that he participated in the exhibitions of 1806 and 1809 and in 1811 he received a medal from the Society of Encouragement for the National Industry.
He will cease his activities in 1822, ruined and crippled, and will end his life in a hospice.

 In 1822, the Parisian Bazaar cited him as "an excellent cabinetmaker working especially for royal manufactures and furnishings for His Majesty's palaces". His name appears in the Almanac du Commerce until 1825.