Louis XV Commode Circa 1765 Coromandel Varnish Stamped Kofler Jme Jean Mathieu Kofler

Louis XV chest of drawers circa 1765 Coromandel varnish stamped KOFLER JME Jean Mathieu Kofler (1736-1796) W. 92 cm, H. 90 cm, D. 53 cm Cf.: Pierre Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII Siecle, 1989, p. 466 and following. Born in Vienna, died in Paris. Arrived in France before the end of the reign of Louis XV, he managed a factory and a furniture store at the Cour du Puits, in the district of Saint-Jean-de-Latran, one of the places of freedom which housed the free work. In 1791, Koffler addressed a letter to the section committee in which he declared himself an academician of his native town and underlined the services he had rendered to the state by training many pupils in drawing and cabinetmaking. After his death there was a public sale of his wares which, according to advertisements, included "a quantity of furniture in lacquer, mahogany, rose and veneer, trimmed with plates of copper gilded with ormolu". Inv. no. 5,606 11,500 €