A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOULLE CONSOLE TABLE, inlaid à contre partie, by Mignaud, Paris, with a black and yellow variegated marble breakfront top, above the frieze with projecting tablet, signed to the underside in ink Mignaud fecit 1844 rue de L'hirondelle 22 à Paris, the lower part with a shaped back inset with a rectangular mirrored plate, on square-tapering front legs, with shaped tier, on acanthus-cast toupie feet (the marble top repaired and possibly later), mid-19th Century

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOULLE CONSOLE TABLE, inlaid à contre partie, by Mignaud, Paris, with a black and yellow variegated marble breakfront top, above the frieze with projecting tablet, signed to the underside in ink Mignaud fecit 1844 rue de L'hirondelle 22 à Paris, the lower part with a shaped back inset with a rectangular mirrored plate, on square-tapering front legs, with shaped tier, on acanthus-cast toupie feet (the marble top repaired and possibly later), mid-19th Century
42½in. (108cm.) wide; 36¾in. (93.5cm.) high; 21¼in. (54cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The table-frame relates to stands such as those provided in 1839 for medal-cabinets, which André-Charles Boulle had manufactured in the late seventeenth century for Louis XIV (see D. Alcouffe, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Dijon, 1993, no. 17).

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