Details
A PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH ENCOIGNURES
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each with serpentine cornice above three shaped brass-bound cabinet doors and fitted with with masks and trophies above encadrements incorporating cabochons, shells, grape clusters, and vine leaves, on plinth base edged in ormolu banding (each variously inscribed with letters and numbers, restorations) -78in. (195cm.) high, 36in. (240cm.) wide, 66½in. (169cm.) deep (2)
SECOND QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Each with serpentine cornice above three shaped brass-bound cabinet doors and fitted with with masks and trophies above encadrements incorporating cabochons, shells, grape clusters, and vine leaves, on plinth base edged in ormolu banding (each variously inscribed with letters and numbers, restorations) -78in. (195cm.) high, 36in. (240cm.) wide, 66½in. (169cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
The Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, sold Sotheby's, 18-20 May 1977, lot 513
Sotheby's New York, 6 November 1982, lot 198
Sotheby's New York, 6 November 1982, lot 198
Literature
R. & R. Clark, Mentmore, 1884, p. 189, figs. 1-2
G. Wilson, "Acquisitions 1977 to mid-1979", The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, 1977, no. 15, p. 40
R.R. Wark, French Furniture in the Huntington Collection, 1979,
p. 29
G. Wilson, "Acquisitions 1977 to mid-1979", The J. Paul Getty Museum Journal, 1977, no. 15, p. 40
R.R. Wark, French Furniture in the Huntington Collection, 1979,
p. 29