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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.
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.