From the Palais des Tuileries:
A Louis XV table by Brice Péridiez
Amaranth, tulipwood, rosewood, and beech veneers on oak, ormolu mountings, iron lock. Side table / decorative writing desk on slender curved supports. The apron with a drawer on one side; curved top inlaid with tendrils and with a bronze inlaid border. Stamped (B) PERIDIEZ JME below the apron and with crowned brandmark T for the Tuileries Palace inventory beneath the top. In very good restored condition. H 71.5, W 49.5, D 40 cm.
Pre-1757.
Brice Péridiez must have received his master's title before 1738, because his name does not appear on the lists that begin after that date. His workshop was located in the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine. He became known for expertly veneering furniture in amaranth and rosewood with these typical fine foliate tendrils. He is considered to be the only ebenist who used a punch stamp with three rows of lettering. Péridiez died in 1757 and his eldest son Gérard did not become a master until 1761, so he was unable to continue his father's business.
Until its destruction during the Paris Commune uprising in 1871, the Palais des Tuileries bordered the Louvre to the west. Today, only the gardens above the banks of the Seine remain. Caterina de' Medici planned the city palace, which was only largely completed after her death. When Louis XIV chose Versailles as his residence, the Tuileries Palace was only used occasionally. Nevertheless, furniture was repeatedly ordered for the interior, but especially again under Louis XVI. The collection of the Mobilier national still contains numerous pieces of seating furniture, wall sconces and also carpets from the period shortly before the Revolution and afterwards, for the interior under Napoléon and Joséphine. Georges I. Jacob and François-Honoré Jacob-Desmalter supplied the city palace with representative pieces, among others.
Provenance
Palais des Tuileries.
South German private collection.
Literature
For the inventory stamps see Nicolay, L'art et la manière des maîtres ébénistes français au XVIII siècle, vol. 2, Paris 1959, p. 100, 139.
For the cabinetmaker see Kjellberg, Le mobilier français du XVIII siècle, Paris 2008, p. 683 ff.