A MASSIVE LOUIS XVI STYLE GILTWOOD TABLE DE MILIEU

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A MASSIVE LOUIS XVI STYLE GILTWOOD TABLE DE MILIEU
LATE 19TH CENTURY, BY PAUL SORMANI

With a round rectangular moulded brêche violet marble top with cut-out corners above a breakfront frieze carved with fluting and guilloche centering cartouches and pierced carved with berried-laurel drapery on eight square tapering legs carved with berried-laurel pendants each pair centering a turned tapering stop-fluted support with a shaped plinth supporting two cherubs, on leaf-tip carved square tapering feet with a pierced intricately carved foliate H-stretcher centering a crisply carved flower-filled basket, stamped 'P. SORMANI'
34½in. (87.6cm.) high, 97in. (246.4cm.) wide, 57in. (144.8cm.) deep

拍品专文

Paul Sormani is recorded as having worked in Paris at 10 Rue Charlotte after 1867. He participated in the L'Exposition Universelle of 1855 and was awarded the first class medal. In the London Exposition of 1862 he was awarded the silver medal. His altelier is renown for fine ormolu-mounted furniture in the Louis XV and XVI styles. (See D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIXe Siècle, 1984, pp. 583-588)