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Console
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Adam Weisweiler was one of a number of German furniture-makers who moved to France during the reign of Louis XVI. He was celebrated for his delicate furniture, which was acquired by Queen Marie Antoinette, various members of the Bonaparte family, and by the Prince of Wales.
This console, or side table, bears a circular medallion showing a "Sacrifice to Peace" manufactured in England by Josiah Wedgwood and exported to France.
Provenance
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Collection of Alfred de Rothschild, London, England, by 1884 [1]. With Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, by 1922 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; purchased by Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922; by bequest to the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 1931.
[1] Charles Davis, A Description of the Works of Art Forming the Collection of Alfred de Rothschild, vol. 1 (London, 1884), unpaginated. The console is visible in one of the photographs of the interiors of Alfred de Rothschild’s London home that appear in the section “Views of the Principal Rooms in Seamore Place” at the front of this volume.
Geographies
United Kingdom, England
(Place of Origin)
France (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 34 13/16 × W: 48 1/16 × D: 11 15/16 in. (88.5 × 122 × 30.4 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
65.18