{"id":8783,"date":"2024-05-24T12:16:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T10:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebenisterie-mathieuvath.fr\/?p=8783"},"modified":"2024-05-24T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T10:16:32","slug":"table-a-jeux-regence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebenisterie-mathieuvath.fr\/en\/2024\/05\/24\/table-a-jeux-regence\/","title":{"rendered":"Regency Games Table"},"content":{"rendered":"

Restoration of a Regency period games table converted into a desk, resting on four cabriole legs. It is veneered with thick amaranth leaves and features two drawers (called "ch\u00e9trons") on the sides and a removable top (locked by a push-button mechanism) covered in dark leather on its facing and a checkerboard pattern veneered in ebony and inlaid with ivory on the reverse. When the top is removed, it reveals a backgammon set in ebony and ivory. The molded astragal surrounding the top is made of solid amaranth wood. The legs and stretchers are beech, the panels are softwood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This table has several purposes, therefore serving at once as a small desk, or even as a cabaret table, but above all as a table for card games, checkers and chess (remember that in the first half of the 18th century the same sixty-four square checkerboard was used for both) and finally as a backgammon game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The piece of furniture is adorned with gilt and chiseled bronze ornamentation: an important mascaron of Ceres on each of the front bands, four corner drops decorated with cartouches, shells, egg-and-dart and reticulated backgrounds, four enveloping feet known as "in slipper" decorated with palmettes and acanthus scrolls, and finally two small drawer pulls with rosettes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fran\u00e7ois LIEUTAUD (1665 \u2013 1748)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A cabinetmaker originally from Marseille, he received his master's certificate in Paris at the end of the 17th century and was active during the reign of Louis XIV and the Regency. He worked within the privileged confines of the Saint-Jean-de-Latran cloister, and Louis XIV granted him the rare privilege of creating and crafting the bronze mounts for his furniture. He collaborated with No\u00ebl G\u00e9rard (who was also a mercer), as well as with Charles Cressent and even Andr\u00e9-Charles Boulle (who appointed him as his personal expert during a trial in 1719). He founded a dynasty of cabinetmakers, as his son Charles and his grandson Balthazar (famous for his regulator clocks) practiced the same craft. Long unknown to art historians due to his stamp bearing only the initials "FL," he is nevertheless considered one of the greatest cabinetmakers of his time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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