Property from the Collection of
the late ALICE TULLY
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COFFRE DE VOYAGE
Details
AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COFFRE DE VOYAGE
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Now fitted as a jardinière, with later drop-in square top enclosing a brass liner above a case fitted with a central fall-front mounted with torchères en flambeau and centered by a circular reserve enclosing a dolphin and a putto, the side and back similarly mounted, on turned tapering ormolu legs headed by stiff leaf capitals and joined by an arched pierced stretcher ending in spear's heads, on foliate-cast feet (restorations)--35¼in. (89.5cm.) high, 16½in. (42.5cm.) square
EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Now fitted as a jardinière, with later drop-in square top enclosing a brass liner above a case fitted with a central fall-front mounted with torchères en flambeau and centered by a circular reserve enclosing a dolphin and a putto, the side and back similarly mounted, on turned tapering ormolu legs headed by stiff leaf capitals and joined by an arched pierced stretcher ending in spear's heads, on foliate-cast feet (restorations)--35¼in. (89.5cm.) high, 16½in. (42.5cm.) square
Provenance
Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 4-6 December 1907, lot 304 (11,200FF)
A. & R. Ball, New York
René Fribourg, New York, sold Sotheby's London, 17 October 1963, lot 702 (L300)
A. & R. Ball, New York
René Fribourg, New York, sold Sotheby's London, 17 October 1963, lot 702 (L300)