AN ORMOLU, SEVRES-MOUNTED AND KINGWOOD CENTRE TABLE, the rectangular top with canted angles, outlined with beaded, pierced and tasseled border, centred by an oval porcelain panel, depicting a seated hero with two nude cloud-borne maidens and a cherub, with four shaped spandrels, each decorated with figures in 18th century costume, within landscapes, intersected by four roundels, each decorated with architectural views, the centre oval and the four spandrels each signed RENOT, the base of tripod form with three square-shaped legs each with an urn finial and with ribbon tied laurel festoons, on baluster bun feet, centred by a flaming urn with acanthus-cast stepped surround, the confirming base with tied laurels on stepped mahogany plinth (one roundel with restorations, the top and base possibly associated), second half 19th Century

AN ORMOLU, SEVRES-MOUNTED AND KINGWOOD CENTRE TABLE, the rectangular top with canted angles, outlined with beaded, pierced and tasseled border, centred by an oval porcelain panel, depicting a seated hero with two nude cloud-borne maidens and a cherub, with four shaped spandrels, each decorated with figures in 18th century costume, within landscapes, intersected by four roundels, each decorated with architectural views, the centre oval and the four spandrels each signed RENOT, the base of tripod form with three square-shaped legs each with an urn finial and with ribbon tied laurel festoons, on baluster bun feet, centred by a flaming urn with acanthus-cast stepped surround, the confirming base with tied laurels on stepped mahogany plinth (one roundel with restorations, the top and base possibly associated), second half 19th Century

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AN ORMOLU, SEVRES-MOUNTED AND KINGWOOD CENTRE TABLE, the rectangular top with canted angles, outlined with beaded, pierced and tasseled border, centred by an oval porcelain panel, depicting a seated hero with two nude cloud-borne maidens and a cherub, with four shaped spandrels, each decorated with figures in 18th century costume, within landscapes, intersected by four roundels, each decorated with architectural views, the centre oval and the four spandrels each signed RENOT, the base of tripod form with three square-shaped legs each with an urn finial and with ribbon tied laurel festoons, on baluster bun feet, centred by a flaming urn with acanthus-cast stepped surround, the confirming base with tied laurels on stepped mahogany plinth (one roundel with restorations, the top and base possibly associated), second half 19th Century
39¾in. (101cm.) wide; 30¾in. (78cm.) high; 31¾in. (80.5cm.) deep

拍品專文

The Louis XVI fashion for porcelain-mounted furniture was revived during the reign of Louis XVIII and Charles X by ébénistes such as Alexander-Louis Bellangé (d.1863). A Napoleon III porcelain-mounted table with the same lambrequined edge is illustrated in C.Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, Woodbridge, 1984, p.256.