A Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted marble-topped mahogany centre table

AFTER THE MODEL BY ADAM WEISWEILER, CIRCA 1890

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A Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted marble-topped mahogany centre table
After the model by Adam Weisweiler, Circa 1890
The rectangular fleur de pêcher marble top with eared corners, above a panelled frieze cast with ribbon-hung garlands, set to the front with a central door decorated with a mask flanked by winged sphinxes, the reverse with a similar false-drawer, supported on four basket-bearing caryatids with tapering uprights, joined by a shaped stretcher with central pierced basket, on short spirally fluted legs, the lock stamped E. SCHMIDT/A/PARIS
30½in. (77.5cm.) high; 33in. (83.8cm.) wide; 18¾in. (47.7cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The present table is based on a model by Adam Weisweiler (d.1820) for Marie-Antoinette at the château de Saint-Cloud (illustrated in A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers: The Art of the Ebéniste from Louis XIV to the Revolution, Paris, 1989, p. 389). During the last quarter of the 19th century, the model was very much in fashion and was widely copied, both in exact and simplified versions, by Parisian cabinet-makers. An example by the Maison Fourdinois was shown at the Exposition des arts du bois organised in 1882 by the Union centrale des Arts Decoratifs.

A slightly larger example of the present model sold Sotheby's New York, The Marshall B. Coyne Collection, 6 June 2001, lot 265 ($34,100).

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