Lot Essay
A nearly identical centre table with scagliola table top, slightly smaller than this table and attributed to Martin-Guillaume Biennais, was sold anonymously at Sotheby's New York, 19 November 1993, lot 69.
20TH CENTURY
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A FRENCH ORMOLU, WHITE MARBLE AND RED PORPHYRY CENTRE TABLE
20th Century
The inset tablet-shaped top within a flowerhead-decorated rim with laurel-band and on eight column supports, joined by a conforming stretcher and on turned tapering legs terminating in brass caps and casters
40½ in. (103 cm.) wide; 30½ in. (77.5 cm.) high; 20½ in. (52 cm.) deep
20th Century
The inset tablet-shaped top within a flowerhead-decorated rim with laurel-band and on eight column supports, joined by a conforming stretcher and on turned tapering legs terminating in brass caps and casters
40½ in. (103 cm.) wide; 30½ in. (77.5 cm.) high; 20½ in. (52 cm.) deep