19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND LINE-INLAID TABLE TRICOTEUSE
19TH CENTURY
The shaped rectangular galleried top with fall front raised on trestle supports joined by an oval medial shelf
28 ½ in. (72.5 cm.) high, 30 ½ in. (77.5 cm.) wide, 13 ½ in. (34.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired from Michel Meyer, 1983.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This elegant tricoteuse is inspired by the celebrated example supplied by Jean-Henri Riesener to Queen Marie-Antoinette for her cabinet at the Château de Saint-Cloud and is now at the Musée Nissim de Camondo, see N. Gasc and G. Mabile, Le Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, 1991, p. 38. An identical table by Adam Weisweiler from the London collection of Mrs. Wrightsman sold Sotheby's, New York, 28 April 2010, lot 135 ($170,500).

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