Lot Essay
Claude-Charles Saunier, maître in 1752.
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
(Lots 74-77)
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CONSOLE DESSERTE
BY CLAUDE-CHARLES SAUNIER
Details
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CONSOLE DESSERTE
By Claude-Charles Saunier
The eared, moulded, splayed grey-veined white marble top inset within an ormolu border, the panelled, beaded frieze enclosing one central drawer flanked by mottled panels and concave sides, on brass-fluted, turned, spreading columnar supports with foliate capitals and joined by a splayed, concave-sided rectangular marble undertier, on milled toupie feet with ormolu sabots, restorations, the lower marble with repaired crack, stamped 'C C SAUNIER'
30¾ in. (78.5 cm.) wide; 36¼ in. (92 cm.) high; 13¾ in. (38 cm.) deep
By Claude-Charles Saunier
The eared, moulded, splayed grey-veined white marble top inset within an ormolu border, the panelled, beaded frieze enclosing one central drawer flanked by mottled panels and concave sides, on brass-fluted, turned, spreading columnar supports with foliate capitals and joined by a splayed, concave-sided rectangular marble undertier, on milled toupie feet with ormolu sabots, restorations, the lower marble with repaired crack, stamped 'C C SAUNIER'
30¾ in. (78.5 cm.) wide; 36¼ in. (92 cm.) high; 13¾ in. (38 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's Monaco, 5 December 1993, lot 27 (FF 288,600).