A LOUIS XVI STYLE GILTWOOD TABLE DE MILIEU

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE GILTWOOD TABLE DE MILIEU
IN THE MANNER OF GEORGES JACOB

With an eared rectangular molded violet and white marble top above a fluted frieze crisply carved with foliate drapery on spirally fluted and reeded turned tapering legs headed by hippocamp-formed brackets, on paw feet with a shaped H-stretcher centering an urn--30¼in. (76.2cm.) high, 47in. (119.3cm.0 wide, 29¾in. (76.2cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The offered lot is a reproduction of one supplied by Georges Jacob to the Comte D'Artois at Versailles in 1781, which now resides in the Louvre. Towards the end of the 19th Century, this highly popular design was widely reproduced by such ebenistes as A. Beurdeley and H. Dasson. See ?

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