AN IVORY INLAID BURR AMBOYNA TRIPOD TABLE

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AN IVORY INLAID BURR AMBOYNA TRIPOD TABLE
DESIGNED BY JACQUES-EMILE RUHLMANN CIRCA 1922

Circular top with sectionally figured veneer, inlaid around the edge with ivory dots, cabriole square section legs with scrolled feet, branded mark Ruhlmann X.
25 1/4in. (64cm.) high; 19 3/4in. (50cm.) diameter

Provenance

Marcel Wolfers, thence by descent.

Lot Essay

Purchased from Compagnie des Arts in 1926 for 1290ff.
See contemporary photograph of the table in situ, reproduced with lots 205 and 206.
Cf: Camard, Ruhlmann. Master of Art Deco, London, 1984, similar tables illustrated p. 202 (1922-3); p. 90 (Boudoir in the Hotel du Collectionneur), Paris Exhibition, 1925; p. 116 (1928); p. 268.

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