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A LOUIS XVI TULIPWOOD, SYCAMORE AND MARQUETRY CONSOLE DESSERTE
LATE 18TH CENTURY, INDISTINCTLY STAMPED...AILLE JME
With later demi-lune liver and grey mottled marble top above a frieze fitted with a central drawer flanked by a compartment, each inlaid with floral garlands, on rectangular stiles before a panel inlaid with classical ruins and two balloons commemorating the Montgolfier brothers first hot-air balloon flight from Paris to..............joined by a similarly inlaid undertier, on toupie feet--33½in. (85cm.) high, 31½in. (80cm.) wide, 17¼in. (44cm.) deep
LITERATURE
Connaissance des Arts,...Will to ask sue Railey
The stamp is probably that of Bataille, recorded as working during the
LATE 18TH CENTURY, INDISTINCTLY STAMPED...AILLE JME
With later demi-lune liver and grey mottled marble top above a frieze fitted with a central drawer flanked by a compartment, each inlaid with floral garlands, on rectangular stiles before a panel inlaid with classical ruins and two balloons commemorating the Montgolfier brothers first hot-air balloon flight from Paris to..............joined by a similarly inlaid undertier, on toupie feet--33½in. (85cm.) high, 31½in. (80cm.) wide, 17¼in. (44cm.) deep
LITERATURE
Connaissance des Arts,...Will to ask sue Railey
The stamp is probably that of Bataille, recorded as working during the