A LOUIS XV PROVINCIAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED FRUITWOOD AND MARQUETRY TABLE DE TOILETTE, inlaid overall with foliate medallions, the rectangular galleried hinged-top enclosing a fitted bird's-eye-maple-lined interior with removable compartmented-tray above a well and with mirrored cartouche-shaped panel to the top within an ormolu entrelac border, the frieze inlaid with further foliate medallions, above a waved apron and on cabriole legs with ormolu sabots, late 18 early 19th Century | Christie's

Lot 21

A LOUIS XV PROVINCIAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED FRUITWOOD AND MARQUETRY TABLE DE TOILETTE, inlaid overall with foliate medallions, the rectangular galleried hinged-top enclosing a fitted bird's-eye-maple-lined interior with removable compartmented-tray above a well and with mirrored cartouche-shaped panel to the top within an ormolu entrelac border, the frieze inlaid with further foliate medallions, above a waved apron and on cabriole legs with ormolu sabots, late 18 early 19th Century

Details

A LOUIS XV PROVINCIAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED FRUITWOOD AND MARQUETRY TABLE DE TOILETTE, inlaid overall with foliate medallions, the rectangular galleried hinged-top enclosing a fitted bird's-eye-maple-lined interior with removable compartmented-tray above a well and with mirrored cartouche-shaped panel to the top within an ormolu entrelac border, the frieze inlaid with further foliate medallions, above a waved apron and on cabriole legs with ormolu sabots, late 18 early 19th Century
21¼in. (54cm.) wide; 27½in. (69.5cm.) high; 13¼in. (33.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This Provincial table de toilette bears similarities with furniture produced in Alsace in the mid-18th Century (see F. Levy-Coblentz, L'Art du Meuble en Alsace au Siècle des Lumières, Paris 1985, p. 324.

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