AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY TABLE A OUVRAGE

GENOA, CIRCA 1750

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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY TABLE A OUVRAGE
Genoa, Circa 1750
The waved rectangular top inlaid quatre faces with oyster figuring, within an ormolu border, opening to reveal a compartment for writing materials, above a red silk damask inset writing-slide, the right side with a small apron drawer enclosing compartments for writing, the front, back, and sides set with a scrolled acanthus-sheathed ormolu border, on cabriole legs headed by pierced and scrolled rocaille angle-mounts joined by a galleried marquetry undertier and on asymmetrical rocaille cartouche sabots,some of the frieze mounts possibly later, inscribed 160, bearing two paper labels, one inscribed SYPHER & CO./NEW YORK, the other Fourteen
10in. (77cm.) high, 19in. (49in.) wide, 13in. (35cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Related Genoese work tables with similar distinctive quarter-cut veneers are illustrated in L. Caimi, L'Ebanisteria Genovese del Settecento, 1996, pp. 135-39. It is likely that some of the frieze mounts are a later embellishment, and it is therefore interesting to note that a Genoese bureau de dame of related character was also probably embellished by the English marchand-mercier Edward Holmes Baldock (1777-1845) (sold anonymously at Christie's London, 9 December 1993, lot 127).

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