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A LOUIS XV/XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD TABLE DE MILIEU
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, STAMPED P H MEWESEN JME
With three quarter pierced galleried inset oval carrara marble top above a frieze mounted with entrelac enclosing paterae and fitted with three drawers on cabriole legs headed by foliate-cast chutes with laurel swags joined by an incurved oval undertier, veneered à quatres faces, ending in foliate-cast scroll sabots-- 29¾in. (74.2cm.) high, 32½in. (81.2cm.) wide, 21½in. (53.7cm.) deep
Pierre-Henry Mewesen, maître in 1766
PROVENANCE
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
EXHIBITED
The Taste of Connoisseurs, French & Co., New York, 1958, no. 25
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, STAMPED P H MEWESEN JME
With three quarter pierced galleried inset oval carrara marble top above a frieze mounted with entrelac enclosing paterae and fitted with three drawers on cabriole legs headed by foliate-cast chutes with laurel swags joined by an incurved oval undertier, veneered à quatres faces, ending in foliate-cast scroll sabots-- 29¾in. (74.2cm.) high, 32½in. (81.2cm.) wide, 21½in. (53.7cm.) deep
Pierre-Henry Mewesen, maître in 1766
PROVENANCE
Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
EXHIBITED
The Taste of Connoisseurs, French & Co., New York, 1958, no. 25