CIRCA 1785, STAMPED TWICE I. F. THUILLIER, JME

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A LOUIS XVI GILTWOOD SIDE TABLE
Circa 1785, stamped twice I. F. THUILLIER, JME
The later red and gray mottled marble top above a conforming egg-and-dart and scrolling rinceaux-carved frieze, on stop-fluted tapering circular legs carved with foliage, with an inner leaf-carved frame headed by paterae, on twist-turned legs joined by an interlaced leaf-carved stretcher with an urn finial carved with rams heads, the reverse similarly carved
34in. (86.4cm.) high, 52½in. (133.4cm.) wide, 21¾in. (55.2cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 27-28 February 1975, lot 696 ($12,000).
Property of a Gentleman, sold in these Rooms, 1 November 1990, lot 179 ($77,000).

Lot Essay

Jean-Francois Thuillier, maître in 1752, died circa 1786.

An identical console table, now painted grey, also stamped I. F. THUILLIER and probably oriinally the pair to this table, is in the Wrightsman Collection, (see F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Vol I., Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1966, cat. no. 85, p.125).

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