Lot Essay
See note to lot 93.
The central tablet, mounted with the mask of a river-god wreathed in fronds, relates to a group of Regency library tables in the Louis XIV 'antique' style, associated with the oeuvre of Louis Le Gaigneur (fl. circa 1815) of 19 Queen Street, Edgware Road. Cf: C. Claxton-Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century Furniture, the Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, p. 170-1; one sold Christie's, New York, 7 April 1990, lot 94; another offered Sotheby's, 10 February 1989, lot 111 and re-offered in these Rooms, 9 April 1992, lot 100
The central tablet, mounted with the mask of a river-god wreathed in fronds, relates to a group of Regency library tables in the Louis XIV 'antique' style, associated with the oeuvre of Louis Le Gaigneur (fl. circa 1815) of 19 Queen Street, Edgware Road. Cf: C. Claxton-Stevens and S. Whittington, 18th Century Furniture, the Norman Adams Collection, Woodbridge, 1983, p. 170-1; one sold Christie's, New York, 7 April 1990, lot 94; another offered Sotheby's, 10 February 1989, lot 111 and re-offered in these Rooms, 9 April 1992, lot 100