A LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD STAND

CIRCA 1690

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A LOUIS XIV GILTWOOD STAND
Circa 1690
The later mottled green marble top with strapwork carved frieze centered by floral sprays, suspending a pierced-scrolled apron centered by a female mask and hung with floral swags, above scrolled foliate-carved supports joined by an X-form leaf-carved stretcher centered by a panelled flowerhead, on paw feet, with a paper label inscribed in ink 485 'A' and with a French shipping label, regilt and with signs of earlier polychrome and gilt decoration
35in. (89cm.) high, 44in. (112cm.) wide, 24in. (62cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

Similar tables, used to support lavish displays of silver, appear in Le Clerc's engraved view of the Grande Galerie or Galerie des Glaces in Versailles (illustrated in Louis XIV: Faste et Dcors, exh. cat., Paris, 1960, cat. 621). Such tables were often designed to be executed in silver, although the vast majority were subsequently melted down for scrap. A design for a more elaborate version of this type of table, almost certainly meant to be executed in silver and attributed to Nicolas de Launay, is illustrated in E.E. Dee and G. Walton, Versailles: The View from Sweden, exh. cat., New York, 1988, p. 35, cat. 35.

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