Lot 302
302
Property of A MIDWEST COLLECTOR
A LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND MAHOGANY TABLE À ECRIRE

Details
A LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND MAHOGANY TABLE À ECRIRE
IN THE MANNER OF J.F. OEBEN

With a serpentine rectangular three-quarter pierced brass galleried top inset with a mottled red marble above a conforming case fitted with a drawer and tolled leather writing slide over an apron drawer, on cabriole legs with scrolling sabots, mounted at the angles with ram's masks--29¼in. (73.6cm.) high, 22¾in. (58.4cm.) wide, 18¼in. (45.7cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The offered lot is similar to a table à transformations designed by Jean François Oeben for Louis XV and later redesigned by Leleu, now in the Wallace collection. Hachette Les Ebénistes du XVIIIe Siècle François, 1963, pp.152 Plate 3.