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A Régence table à gibier with similar shell-carved ornament, flowerhead trellis frieze and scrolling stretchers in the Musée du Louvre is illustrated in S. Ricci, Louis XIV und Régence, 1929, p. 73.
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A RÉGENCE GILTWOOD TABLE À GIBIER
CIRCA 1720
The rectangular liver and grey marble top above a frieze carved with a central shell within scrolls and foliage flanked by similar shells above square tapering foliage and scroll-carved legs joined by an X-form stretcher on foliate-carved cabochon feet, restorations to gilding
32½in. (82.5cm.) high, 72½in. (184cm.) wide, 24¾in. (63cm.) deep
CIRCA 1720
The rectangular liver and grey marble top above a frieze carved with a central shell within scrolls and foliage flanked by similar shells above square tapering foliage and scroll-carved legs joined by an X-form stretcher on foliate-carved cabochon feet, restorations to gilding
32½in. (82.5cm.) high, 72½in. (184cm.) wide, 24¾in. (63cm.) deep