A TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED CITONNIER AND PARQUETRY TABLE À ÉCRIRE by RVLC, inlaid overall à la Reine with flower-filled latticework and chequer-banding, with pierced galleried oval top, the frieze with one drawer, the fitted interior with red velvet-lined lid and brass-lined compartments on cabriole legs headed by neo-classical mounts with laurel swags joined by galleried kidney-shaped undertier, with foliate scrolled sabots, repair to top and undertier, restorations, stamped R.V.L.C. JME, the legs reduced in height, the sabots possibly associated

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A TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED CITONNIER AND PARQUETRY TABLE À ÉCRIRE by RVLC, inlaid overall à la Reine with flower-filled latticework and chequer-banding, with pierced galleried oval top, the frieze with one drawer, the fitted interior with red velvet-lined lid and brass-lined compartments on cabriole legs headed by neo-classical mounts with laurel swags joined by galleried kidney-shaped undertier, with foliate scrolled sabots, repair to top and undertier, restorations, stamped R.V.L.C. JME, the legs reduced in height, the sabots possibly associated
19½in. (49½cm) wide; 25in. (63.5cm.) high; 13¾in. (35cm.) deep

Provenance

The Dowager Viscountess Harcourt, G.B.E., Sold in these Rooms, 6 July 1961, lot 35, illustrated, to Partridge for 6,200 gns.

Lot Essay

A similar pair was sold Ader Picard Tajan, Paris, 1988 and illustrated P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, p.753, fig. C
Another similar from the collection of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild is at Waddesdon Manor and illustrated G. de Bellaigue, The James A de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Furniture, Vol. II, 1974, p.485

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