A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV EBONY AND BRASS-INLAID BOULLE PEDESTALS, each with later moulded rectangular slate top with concave frieze inlaid with foliage and lambrequins edged with brass borders, the tapering shaft inlaid in première and contre-partie marquetry with Bérainesque figures, one with a dancing figure facing left, the other right, within strapwork and foliage, on splayed bases inlaid with acanthus and conforming plinths outlined with brass lines, one slightly smaller, minor variations in construction, restorations

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XIV EBONY AND BRASS-INLAID BOULLE PEDESTALS, each with later moulded rectangular slate top with concave frieze inlaid with foliage and lambrequins edged with brass borders, the tapering shaft inlaid in première and contre-partie marquetry with Bérainesque figures, one with a dancing figure facing left, the other right, within strapwork and foliage, on splayed bases inlaid with acanthus and conforming plinths outlined with brass lines, one slightly smaller, minor variations in construction, restorations
15¾in. (40.5cm.) wide; 47in. (119.5cm.) high; 11½in. (29cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

Perhaps the '2 Buhl pedestals for Busts' recorded in the Library at Tullyallan in the list of 'Furniture &c. at Tullyallan taken by Georgina' (Georgine de Flahault) probably in 1866. The Flahaut's second surviving daughter Georgine (always called Georgina) 1822-1907, married the marquis de Lavelette in 1870

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