AFTER JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, MAHOGANY AND PARQUETRY CENTRE-TABLE
AFTER JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The trellis and rosette parquetry top above a frieze applied with scrolling acanthus and centred to the front and back with a relief-cast plaque depicting Venus in a hippocampi-drawn chariot attended by tritons and nereids, the ends each fitted with a spring-loaded drawer and centred by a plaque cast with cavorting putti, on tapering fluted legs and leaf-cast feet; with protective glass top
30 in. (76.2 cm.) high; 59½ in. (151.5 cm.) wide; 29½ in. (75 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The design of this ormolu-enriched centre-table is derived from the celebrated marquetry table des Muses, supplied in 1771 for Louis XVI's Garde-Meuble by Jean-Henri Riesener (mâitre 1768) and now on display at the Petit Trianon, Versailles. The original model was copied, or as here adapted, by many of the top late 19th century Parisian ébénistes, among them Beurdeley and Linke. A related bureau plat by the firm of Durand featuring similar ormolu bas-reliefs is illustrated in C. Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, Woodbridge, 1981, p. 127, no. 297.

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