拍品 31
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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND BRONZED OCCASIONAL TABLE

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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND BRONZED OCCASIONAL TABLE

The circular tray-top with everted rim and reeded banding, on swan-shaped supports with pierced foliate mount headed by a stiff-leaf mount and joined by a concave-sided triangular stretcher with central spirally-gadrooned flaming urn, on paw-feet, two wing-tips and one foot replaced, the tray-top and stretcher distressed
16½in. (42cm.) diam.; 27in. (69cm.) high

拍品專文

The tripod wash-stand is designed in the antique or Pompeiian manner and, with its chimerical swan-supports merging into lion-monopodiae, relates both to a pattern issued by C. Percier and P. Fontaine in their Recueil de Décorations intérieures, 1801, p. XIX, and to a 'lavabo' pattern issued by La Méssangère in his Collection de meubles et objects de goût, Paris, 1831, p. 686. An almost identical table with triangular top and undertier is in the Palazzo Pitti, Florence, and illustrated in E. Colle, 'Palazzo Pitti, Il Quartiere d'Inverno', Catalogue, Milan, 1991, p. 71, cat. 16552