BY SORMANI AND SON, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH WHITE-METAL MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND EBONISED ETAGERE
BY SORMANI AND SON, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
With ivory lined panels, the quarter veneered top centred by the monogram 'BL' with two galleried platforms below on tripod base and bun feet, bearing an engraved brass label 'VveP SORMANI & FILS 10, r Charlot, PARIS'
31 in. (79 cm.) high; 21¼ in. (54 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

This form of turning bookstand-table (bibliothéque-table or liseuse) was popular in the 1880s and bears the brass label of the celebrated Charlot workshops of Paul Somani's widow and son Paul-Charles, who participated in the Paris Exposition Universalle of 1878. A closely related table is illustrated N. de Reynies, Le mobilier doméstique, Paris, 1987, vol. II, no. 3922).

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