A Louis XVI-style ormolu-mounted mahogany writing and trictrac table

BY PAUL SORMANI, PARIS, CIRCA 1880

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A Louis XVI-style ormolu-mounted mahogany writing and trictrac table
By Paul Sormani, Paris, Circa 1880
The top with leather writing surface, swivelling and lifting off to reveal an interior inlaid with a trictrac board, complete with counters, the lock-plate engraved P. SORMANI. 10 r. Charlot. Paris, the front and back with false drawer centred by an acanthus frieze with central Bacchic mask, with panelled sides, on slender tapering fluted legs and urn-shaped cap feet
28in. (72.4cm.) high; 35in. (90.1cm.) wide; 22in. (55.8cm.) deep
Sormani, P.

Lot Essay

Italian by birth, Paul Sormani established his highly successful business at 10, rue Charlot in 1867. He exhibited at all of the major international exhibitions, with petits meubles de fantaisie as well as fine quality versions in the Louis XV and, as here, Louis XVI styles. On Sormani's death, the business was continued by his wife and son, pieces then being signed Vve Sormani & Fils.

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