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A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV BRASS TORTOISESHELL-INLAID EBONY 'BOULLE' MARQUETY PEDESTALS
CIRCA 1700, ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRÉ CHARLES BOULLE
Each with shaped demi-lune top edged with a band of overlapping foliage above a conforming frieze and tapering columnar shaft headed by lion's head masks and acanthus ending in foliate clasps, on a stepped plinth edged with a brass border and simulated flutes with chandelles, inlaid throughout in contre partie with scrolling foliate arabesques- 40in. (100cm.) high (2)
CIRCA 1700, ATTRIBUTED TO ANDRÉ CHARLES BOULLE
Each with shaped demi-lune top edged with a band of overlapping foliage above a conforming frieze and tapering columnar shaft headed by lion's head masks and acanthus ending in foliate clasps, on a stepped plinth edged with a brass border and simulated flutes with chandelles, inlaid throughout in contre partie with scrolling foliate arabesques- 40in. (100cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Hubert de Saint Senoch, Pavillion de Bidane, sold Sotheby's Monaco, 4-6 December 1983, lot 219