1770? 'Potarange' Guéridon

guéridon dish top flip top chippendale style mahogany c late 1760-70'sFour times a year (Statutes of 1743), the jurors went around all the workshops of masters and free workers,to control whether the works were debited and assembled according to the corporate rules.In this case, they marked, cold, the object examined with an iron bearing the initialsJME: Jurande des Menuisiers Ebénistes (Professional Association of Carpenters and Cabinetmakers)obligation for each master to mark his works with an iron bearing his name or hisinitialsmaster carpenter "POTARANGE", Real name Jean HOFFENRIGHLER, a german. 1767Jean Potarange dit Hoffenrichler - Cabinetmaker. Master, 1767. Native of Germany.He worked first as a free laborer on the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and continued to practice until thebeginning of the reign of Louis XVI. We owe him some simple furniture, but of a good quality.Work of Jean Hoffenrichler, said Potarange, received master in 1767A mahogany pedestal table with the same base, stamped by Jean Potarange, went on sale March 15, 1973,illustrated in P. Kjellberg, the French furniture of the eighteenth century, Paris , 1989, p. 670.Another was sold by Sotheby's Paris, on December 17, 2008, lot 135.Here is the hypothesis of a work created by Canabas and resold by Potarange, acting as a merchant.Indeed, a similar pedestal, however, with a pierced barrel, stamped Canabas was sold in Paris, Galliéra Palace,Georges Geffroy collection, December 2, 1971, lot 140.Attributed to GENGENBACH Joseph, (master In 1766), Canabas, 1715-1797