Rare Wigmaker Inlaid With Amaranth Wood

Rare wig maker inlaid with amaranth wood opening in a belt with two drawers. It rests on two high curved legs. The top of the wig has an amaranth curl. The piece of furniture is furnished with gilded and chiseled bronzes in sabots, scraps, aprons, keyholes, pull handles, and ingot molds. The falls are from the Louis XV period. Regency period Usual restorations H 74 x W. 120 x D. 50 cm The piece of furniture in our study is very rare in its shape. Inherited from the chest of drawers but only having one row of drawers. This astonishing piece of furniture was intended to be placed along a wall. Called “table chest of drawers”, “console chest of drawers”, “wig chest” or “wig stand”, it would be the piece of furniture in which the wigs were stored. According to Nicole de Reyniès, in the work “Domestic furniture, typological vocabulary”, the “height necessary for the drawer corresponds to that necessary for the wigs”. We can find other pieces of furniture close to our chest of drawers at the Cognacq-Jay museum which retains a “wig chest” from the Louis XV period or another reproduced in “L'Objet d'Art” number 518 (sold by the Colin du Bocage auction house in June 2012).