AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE SIDE TABLE

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细节

AN EMPIRE ORMOLU AND BRONZE SIDE TABLE
The eared rectangular verde antico marble top above a frieze with anthemion and palmette band and Mercury masks to the angles, the angle panel of the sides with a star-motif within a wreath, on scrolling lotus-leaf covered legs, their sides with a laurel-crowned Bacchic mask, above an anthemion with trailing laurels and terminating in a lotus-leaf cap, the panelled supports to the back with flowerheads, above a concave-fronted rectangular undertier with later verde antico marble, on a panelled plinth with flowerheads and on semi-circular anthemion-fronted feet, the lower marble replaced
47¾ in. (121 cm.) wide; 35¼ in. (90 cm.) high; 12 in. (30.5 cm.) deep

拍品专文

This marble-topped console-table, with Ionic pilasters fronted by acanthus-wrapped and voluted trusses, relates in form to tables delivered in 1810 to the Petit Trianon by the ébéniste Pierre Benoît Marcion (illustrated in D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Petit Trianon , Paris, 1989, p.96). Embellished in the early 19th Century 'antique' manner with Grecian palmflowers and inverted 'acrotia' feet in the manner of Charles Percier and Pierre Fontaine's Recueil des Décorations Intérieures of 1801, its 'Erechtheum' frieze is enriched with Medusa-masks and Isis-stars; and the voluted trusses enclose Apollo masks.