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A Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted polychrome-decorated parquetry and marquetry table de salon

IN THE MANNER OF JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, CIRCA 1890

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A Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted polychrome-decorated parquetry and marquetry table de salon
In the manner of Jean-Henri Riesener, Circa 1890
The rectangular top inlaid with lozenge parquetry within a floral marquetry border, above a panelled frieze, the gold ground painted with ribbon-tied scrolling flowers, the corners each with a ram's mask above floral swags, on blue-painted tapering legs applied with berried trailing foliate banding
28½in. (72.4cm.) high; 22in. (55.9cm.) wide; 16 1/8in. (41cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Whilst the lozenge inlay to its top copies Riesener's trademark parquetry, the floral swag corner mounts and tapering ring-banded legs of this table de salon recall similar elements incorporated in a table supplied by the celebrated ébéniste in 1780 for the cabinet intérieur of Marie-Antoinette at Versailles, now in the Louvre.

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