Lot 448
448
A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY PEDESTAL

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY PEDESTAL
LATE 19TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO MILLET

With a cove-moulded rectangular top inset with an octagonal violet and white marble swiveling above an arched frieze applied with berried-laurel on columnar-turned supports applied with vines and crested by a crisply cast corinthian capital on an incurved quadripartite plinth--36in. (91.4cm.) high, 23¼in. (58.4cm.) wide, 20½in. (52cm.) deep

Lot Essay

llet, T., is recorded as having worked in Paris in 1853, at 11 Rue Jacques Coeur. He was known for his 18th Century reproduction of furniture and was awarded a gold medal in the 1889 Paris Exhibition univereselles. Denise Ledoux-Lebards, Les Ébénistes du XIXe Siècle, 1984, pp. 484-486)