A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY TABLE DE MILIEU

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY TABLE DE MILIEU
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BY EMANUEL ZWIENER

With an eared ormolu-moulded pierced three-quarter galleried top inset with a mottled green marble above a frieze applied with ribbon-tied foliate swags and foliate scrolls centering a medallion depicting a bust of a maiden, on square tapering ormolu legs headed by scantily-clad maidens truncated at the waist, on turned tapering feet with a pierced interlacing H-stretcher centering a basket, twice stamped 'Mon Zwiener'--30½in. (77.4cm.) high, 28¼in. (71.7cm.) wide, 16¼in. (40.6cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Joseph Emanuel Zwiener worked in Paris at rue 12 de la Roquette from 1880 to 1895, leaving Paris to complete a Royal commission for Wilhelm II in Berlin in 1895. Zwiener's atelier is known for fine interpretive reproductions of 18th Century furniture and decorations.

The offered lot is a pastiche of a table originally designed and made by Adam Weisweiler for Marie Antoinette. It was delivered by the marchand-mercier Daguerre in 1784 for the Cabinet Intérieur at St. Cloud, and is now in the Louvre.

Two similar tables are illustrated in Christopher Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, 1981, p. 135, plates 329 and 330.

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