A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY TABLE À ÉCRIRE MID-18TH CENTURY, THE ORMOLU STRUCK WITH THE C COURONNÉ POINÇON TO BERNARD VAN RISENBURG

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY TABLE À ÉCRIRE MID-18TH CENTURY, THE ORMOLU STRUCK WITH THE C COURONNÉ POINÇON TO BERNARD VAN RISENBURG

With later serpentine crossbanded gilt-tooled inset-leather top above a conforming frieze fitted with a central drawer with foliate-cast encadrement inlaid in bois-de-bout with floral sprays, the sides and back similarly inlaid and mounted, on cabriole legs headed by acanthus- cast chutes continuing to foliate-cast sabots--28in. (70cm.) high, 27in. (67.5cm.) wide, 16½in. (41.2cm.) deep

PROVENANCE
Paul Dutasta, Paris, no. 26
T.T.E. Horstman, Castle Clinserbaad, The Netherlands

EXHIBITED
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Art, French Taste in the Eighteenth Century, April-June 1956, no. 33

A table of identical outline and with similar frieze mounts was in the collection of Alminor, Countess of Carnarvon and sold Christie's, London, 19 May 1925, lot 292.