A French ormolu-mounted kingwood, mahogany and marquetry centre table
A French ormolu-mounted kingwood, mahogany and marquetry centre table

IN THE LOUIS XVI STYLE, CIRCA 1890

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A French ormolu-mounted kingwood, mahogany and marquetry centre table
In the Louis XVI Style, Circa 1890
The rectangular brche marble top above a frieze inlaid with a band of oak leaves and acorns, the angles mounted with sunflower rosettes, the front centred by a shaped drawer cast with a band of foliate guilloche, flanked by a pair of further drawers, the lock of each stamped FOREST A PARIS, on square tapering legs garlanded with laurel swags and inlaid with husk pendants, with square capped feet
69 in. (176.5 cm.) wide; 37 in. (94 cm.) high; 28 in. (73 cm.) deep

拍品專文

The firm of Forest is recorded in Ledoux-Lebard's Le Mobilier Franais du XIX Sicle, Paris, 1889, p. 201, as being established at 14, rue Pierre-Picard in 1883.